ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,594, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (Brighton, Great Britain).

"Generating olfactory experiences" was invented by Marianna Obrist (Brighton, Great Britain), Emanuela Maggioni (Brighton, Great Britain) and Robert Cobden (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for generating an olfactory experience comprises a user interface (120) that allows a user to provide a set of input parameters that define a desired olfactory experience. The system (100) further comprises a set of processing modules (104) that convert the set of input parameters into a set of scent delivery instructions fo...