US Patent Issued to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Compositions and methods for a universal clinical test for olfactory dysfunction" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,429, issued on July 22, was assigned to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York).

"Compositions and methods for a universal clinical test for olfactory dysfunction" was invented by Julien Wen Hsieh (Geneva), Andreas Keller (Astoria, N.Y.) and Leslie Birgit Vosshall (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods for measuring olfactory sensitivity, olfactory resolution, and combinations thereof. Such measurements can be made during a single test, or over consecutive tests, which may be performed during a single testing period, such as in a single day, or over a series of testing periods. The tests may be ...