ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,494, issued on March 18, was assigned to REVORN Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, learned model generation method, and program" was invented by Hiroaki Matsuoka (Tokyo), Noriaki Koide (Tokyo) and Yusuke Kosuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires odor data obtained by measuring the odor of an object; a second acquisition unit that acquires an acquisition condition for the odor data; and an identification unit that identifies the object from the odor data and the acquisition condition acquired by the...