ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,538, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Plant state detection system and odor detector" was invented by Manase Mizutani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The plant state detection system includes an odor detector including an odor detection unit configured to detect an odorant emitted from a plant, and a plant state detector configured to acquire odor information detected by the odor detection unit and detect a state of the plant based on the odor information."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/138,158.

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