US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "Handheld stress devices and methods for stress detection and mitigation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,026, issued on Sept. 23.

"Handheld stress devices and methods for stress detection and mitigation" was invented by Brian Alman (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stress assessment devices and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring an image of a user, recognizing a region of interest (ROI) in the image, analyzing the ROI to generate statistics, and determining a level of stress experienced by the user based on the statistics. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an image sensor that acquires an image of a user and a processor configured to perform operations that include recognizing a r...