US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Oct. 14 for "Emotion detection and translation for electronic communications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,136, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Emotion detection and translation for electronic communications" was invented by Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas) and Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards emotion detection and translation for electronic communications. An emotional state of a first communication participant can be detected, e.g., through face recognition, biometric information, and/or communication content analysis. The emotional state can be encoded in metadata that can accompany ...