ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,079, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Multi-parametric machine olfaction" was invented by Jacob K. Rosenstein (Providence, R.I.) and Christopher Rose (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an array of chemical, pressure, and temperature sensors, and a temporal airflow modulator configured to provide sniffed vapors in a temporally-modulated sequence through a plurality of different air paths across multiple sensor locations."

The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/490,881.

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