ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,193, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Germany).

"System for a motor vehicle and method for assessing the emotions of a driver of a motor vehicle" was invented by David Bethge (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany), Tobias GroBe-Puppendahl (Tubingen, Germany) and Mohamed Kari (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a motor vehicle includes a sensor apparatus having a sensor for determining motor vehicle data and/or driving data of the motor vehicle, and an evaluation unit. The evaluation unit includes an emotion determination unit configured to assess the emotions of the driver of the motor veh...