ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,180, issued on Oct. 28.

"Emotional human machine interface (HMI)" was invented by Jake Larsson (London), Douglas Kilby (London), Jonathan Gregory (Essex, Great Britain), Erica Choi (London) and Jude Stupples (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing an emotional human-machine interface (HMI). A vehicle may comprise a display for presenting an emotional HMI. The emotional HMI may be determined by determining a first occupant of the vehicle, collecting first biometric data for the first occupant using at least the one or more sensors, determining, using an emotion engine of the vehicle, a first emotion...