ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,262, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User comfort monitoring and notification" was invented by Akiko Ikkai (San Jose, Calif.), Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.), Izzet B. Yildiz (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sterling R. Crispin (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations disclosed herein present multimedia content to a user, identify a comfort state of the user (e.g., happy, unhappy, distressed, etc.) based on body data of the user (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the multimedia content based on the identified comfort state."...