ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,655, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ANICOM HOLDINGS INC. (Tokyo).
"Emotion determination system and method for determining emotion" was invented by Takuro Watanabe (Tokyo), Mai Sato (Tokyo), Tsuguna Inagaki (Tokyo), Satoru Kurihara (Tokyo), Mai Tsukada (Tokyo), Natsumi Shinoda (Tokyo), Naoyuki Takada (Tokyo), Ayumi Kamijima (Tokyo), Ayaka Tominaga (Tokyo), Yuri Inui (Tokyo), Nao Konno (Tokyo), Megumi Kaneko (Tokyo), Yusuke Iida (Tokyo) and Cheolhwan Choi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective is to provide an emotion determination system and the like for determining the emotion of an animal by a simple method. The ...