ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,490, issued on May 13, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Adjusting mental state to improve task performance and coaching improvement" was invented by Michael Griffin (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting mental state includes acquiring video data of a first individual, identifying a first set of features based on image, audio, and text data extracted from the video data, predicting a baseline mental state for the first individual based on the first set of features, identifying a target mental state, and simulating a predicted path from the baseline mental state to the target me...