ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,374, issued on March 25, was assigned to East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai).

"Method for multi-information fusion of gas sensitivity and chromatography and on-site detection and analysis of flavor substances based on electronic nose instrument" was invented by Zejian Wang (Shanghai), Daqi Gao (Shanghai), Bo Li (Shanghai), Xiaoqin Zhang (Shanghai), Fang Cai (Shanghai), Jianhua Li (Shanghai) and Mingjian Cheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for multi-information fusion of gas sensitivity and chromatography and on-site detection and analysis of flavor substances using an electronic...