US 11,986,310 B2
Olfactory test systems and methods
David William Smith, Durham, NC (US); Richard Michelli, Raleigh, NC (US); William D. Woolf, Durham, NC (US); and Edward Karwacki, Garner, NC (US)
Assigned to Olfaxis, LLC, Durham, NC (US)
Appl. No. 16/648,046
Filed by Olfaxis, LLC, Durham, NC (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/052821
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 17, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/067519, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 4, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/565,241, filed on Sep. 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0253531 A1, Aug. 13, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/4011 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0004 (2013.01); A61B 5/4088 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0223 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0252 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0257 (2013.01); A61B 2562/029 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of evaluating olfactory function, comprising:
electronically estimating a user-specific odorant detection sensitivity threshold using at least one target stimulus odorant delivered to a nose of a user;
flowably delivering a plurality of different target stimulus odorants to the nose of the user with defined concentrations of the different target stimulus odorants based, at least in part, on the estimated user-specific odorant detection sensitivity threshold; and
evaluating olfactory function of the user based on the user's response to the delivered different target stimulus odorants.