US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Nov. 3 for "Aroma chemical presentation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,078, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Aroma chemical presentation apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Hirata (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: "An aroma chemical presentation apparatus includes an encapsulation body supporting unit that supports an aroma chemical encapsulation body in which an aroma chemical material is encapsulated, an action body that is brought into contact with the aroma chemical encapsulation body to ...