US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 16 for "Creating scent models and using scent models in cross-reality environments" (New Jersey, California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,589, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Creating scent models and using scent models in cross-reality environments" was invented by Wen-Ling Hsu (Bridgewater, N.J.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Louis Alexander (Franklin, N.J.), Aritra Guha (Edison, N.J.), Jean-Francois Paiement (Palm Desert, Calif.), Qiong Wu (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Zhengyi Zhou (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating scent models and using scent models in cross-reality environments can include capturing experience data identifying a scent detected and a context in which the scent was detected. The expe...