Methods, devices, compositions, and systems for improved scent delivery

US8349251B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Ricky Ah-Man Woo · Hamilton, US
• Mario Alonso · Loveland, US
• John Philip Hecht · Sharonville, US
• Steven Y. Reece · Felton, GB
• Frank Kvietok · Cincinnati, US
• Eileen Marie St. Pierre · Cincinnati, US
• Zaiyou Liu · Sharonville, US
• Christine Marie Readnour · Fort Mitchell, US
• Carl-Eric Kaiser · Cincinnati, US
• Susan Eleanor Baillely · Mason, US
• Sion Agami · Mason, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60H2003/0064
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Systems, devices, methods, and compositions that improve the scent perception for a user. Improved scent perception is achieved by presenting alternating scents and by varying levels of output of scents, as well as by minimizing device clogging, thereby improving evaporation profiles.