ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,032, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"User sensory control" was invented by Eric W. Brockwell (Roswell, Ga.) and Babak Makkinejad (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for user sensory control in a bounded space. In one embodiment, the techniques involve receiving user data, generating light data based on the user data and sensory data, generating scent data based on the user data and the sensory data, and controlling a light emission or a scent emission based on a combination of the light data and the scent data."
The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2023, u...