ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,079, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Givaudan SA (Vernier, Switzerland).

"System and method for creating digitized aroma" was invented by Rahul Karthik Sivagaminathan (Blue Ash, Ohio), Adam Eli Cronstein (Cincinnati), Joseph Andrew Kaiser (Alexandria, Ky.) and Yong Hua Xu (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time interactive collaboration system for aroma creation is provided. The system includes an aroma blending device adapted to deliver at least one aroma substance to the nasal cavities of a consumer; a plurality of aroma substance containing cartridges including a communication means for data communication between ...