ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,662, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Adaptive fragrance dispenser" was invented by Michael Kearney (Clark, N.J.), Zane Bowman Allen Miller (Seattle) and Lily Truong (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing device comprising a body with an attachment mechanism configured to connect to a subject, a reservoir disposed inside the body, a removable selected fragrance disposed inside the reservoir, a dispenser coupled to the reservoir, a controller coupled to the dispenser and configured to dispense the selected fragrance, and a plurality of sensors on the body configured to provide data streams to a...