US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 24 for "Gas sensor device, information processing apparatus, and odor presentation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,449, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Gas sensor device, information processing apparatus, and odor presentation system" was invented by Shinichi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Asano (Tokyo), Yoichi Nishimaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takao Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yumi Ueda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gas sensor device including a plurality of sensitive members and a measuring instrument. The plurality of sensitive members have respective sensitive materials that react to molecules present in the air and targeted for me...