US Patent Issued to Snap on March 25 for "Olfactory stickers for chat and AR-based messaging" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,976, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Olfactory stickers for chat and AR-based messaging" was invented by Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An olfactory sticker used in chats between electronic devices to make messaging more immersive, personalized, and authentic by integrating olfactory information with traditional text-based formats and AR messaging. Olfactory stickers are used to indicate to a recipient that a message includes olfactory information. The olfactory sticker illustrates a grap...