ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,467, issued on Oct. 28.
"Emotion-based voice controlled device" was invented by Newton Howard (Potomac, Md.) and Mustak Ibn Ayub (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may process search input for different users based on classifications of information and based on emotional content of search commands from the users. For example, a method may comprise receiving, at a computer system, speech data from a client device, the speech data representing a voice command from a user, obtaining, at the computer system, a plurality of items of content responsive to the voice command by searching for content, determinin...