US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on July 14 for "Information processing device, program, and information providing system providing information about a relationship between a smell or a taste of an object and a description of the smell or taste" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,994, issued on July 14, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, program, and information providing system providing information about a relationship between a smell or a taste of an object and a description of the smell or taste" was invented by Toshiharu Kurisu (Tokyo), Sayako Sakuma (Tokyo), Yusuke Okamura (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Habashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to display a visual representation of a relationship between a smell or a taste of an object and a verbal description of the smell or taste. A display control unit controls a projector to display, in a disp...