US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 2 for "Apparatus for measuring odor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,872, issued on June 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for measuring odor" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dae Un Sung (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring an odor is capable of accurately presetting a baseline that is utilized as a reference value for an output value of an odor sensor, of computing a delta value that represents a difference between the preset baseline and an output value of the odor sensor that senses odor-measurement-subject gas, and of determining the computed delta value as ...