ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,617, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to OVR Tech LLC (Burlington, Vt.).
"System and method for generating olfactory stimuli" was invented by Matthew Flego (Burlington, Vt.), Aaron Wisniewski (Burlington, Vt.), Erik Cooper (Burlington, Vt.) and Samuel Wisniewski (Burlington, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device or system is provided that provides olfactory stimuli, and includes a piezoelectric vibration device that is used to produce scents corresponding to actions performed in a VR or AR environment, or other application. In some implementations, a user interacts with one or more game elements within a game program being execu...