ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,330, issued on April 21, was assigned to Takasago International Corp. (Tokyo).

"Screening method for offensive odor-suppressing material" was invented by Azusa Miki (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Murai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ikuo Terada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a screening method for materials suppressing one or more offensive odors selected from the group consisting of a 1-octen-3-one odor, a 1,5-octadien-3-one odor, a 1-octen-3-ol odor and a 1,5-octadien-3-ol odor, an offensive odor-suppressing composition for reducing the offensiveness of age-related body odors and/or underarm odo...