US 11,886,504 B2
Systems and methods for generating smell data and a database thereof
Xing Su, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Kai Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to MS^2 INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by MS∧2 Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/856,271.
Application 17/856,271 is a continuation of application No. 17/007,292, filed on Aug. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,409,797.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405326 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01); G06N 7/00 (2023.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/901 (2019.01) [G01N 33/0001 (2013.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06N 7/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a sensor,
a heating element thermally coupled to the sensor,
a control module, wherein the control module is configured for monitoring a temperature of the sensor and controlling the heating element to generate a stimulus;
a database;
a processor; and
a memory in communication with the processor, wherein the processor, under power, performs an operation for comparing a sample smell with a smell in the database to analyze a response pattern of the smell from the sensor in the database with the sample smell using a computer executable program code;
the database comprising:
a digital signature of the smell comprising a smell data, wherein the smell data comprises a response signal that is a function of a first data corresponding to a material type generating the response signal and a second data corresponding to the stimulus operable to generating the response signal, wherein the smell data is stored in a data structure on a computer readable storage medium that is associated with the computer executable program code and wherein the response signal is a measurable response of the generator to the stimulus that is a function of change in electrical properties of at least one of a resistance and impedance in the generator;
a smell condition data associated with the smell data, wherein the smell condition data comprises a condition under which the smell data was generated;
an index for the smell data;
a query interface for receiving a query for the sample smell; and
wherein the data structure comprises the smell data arranged in at least one of a computer-readable matrix and a heat-map format; and
wherein the system is configured to analyze the sample smell.