ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,293, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Conveying aggregate psychological states of multiple individuals" was invented by Rafael Ballagas (Palo Alto, Calif.), Erika Siegel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hiroshi Horii (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alexandre Santos Da Silva Jr. (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Jishang Wei (Guilford, Conn.), Jose Dirceu Grundler Ramos (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Rafael Dal Zotto (Spring, Texas), Gabriel Lando (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Srikanth Kuthuru (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are described herein for determining aggregate psychological states of mult...