US Patent Issued to JAPAN TOBACCO, THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST on Dec. 23 for "Method for displaying time-varying flavor as time-varying visual element, program, and information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,940, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JAPAN TOBACCO INC. (Tokyo) and THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for displaying time-varying flavor as time-varying visual element, program, and information processing device" was invented by Akira Miyamae (Tokyo), Kazuya Ishibashi (Tokyo), Yuji Wada (Shiga, Japan) and Kazuya Matsubara (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a time-varying flavor as a time-varying visual element includes a step 130A in which a processor acquires, from a memory, first data representing a time-varying flavor, and a generation step 140A in which the processor generates, on ...