ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,257, issued on May 27, was assigned to OVR Tech LLC (Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and techniques for generating scent" was invented by Aaron Wisniewski (Burlington, Vt.), Alexander Toulan (Burlington, Vt.), Matthew Flego (Burlington, Vt.), Samuel Wisniewski (Burlington, Vt.), Erik Cooper (Burlington, Vt.) and Sarah Socia (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and techniques for generating odor impressions of scents. Some embodiments provide odor impressions in an extended reality (XR) environment (e.g., virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR)). The system determines spatial characteristi...