US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Detecting unexpected user interface behavior using physiological data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,067, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Detecting unexpected user interface behavior using physiological data" was invented by Izzet B. Yildiz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Sterling R. Crispin (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and devices that use physiological data (e.g., indicative of surprise) of a user to determine that an unexpected user interface behavior occurred. In some implementations, a device having a processor implements a method. The method obtains, via a sensor, physiologica...