Patent ID: 11886504
Assignee: MS^2 INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
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.