ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,556, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and system for detecting short-term stress and generating alerts inside the indoor environment" was invented by Chun Kit Hung (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Fu Tuen Leung (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ka Fai Suk (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Kar-Wing Edward Lor (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting short-term stress of a subject person and generating alerts in an indoor environment are disclosed. The system may receive data on the subject person's heart rate, g...