ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,285, issued on July 8, was assigned to KOA HEALTH DIGITAL SOLUTIONS S.L.U. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Inferring the impact on a user's well-being of being in a certain location or situation or with certain individuals" was invented by Aleksandar Matic (Lloret de Mar, Spain) and Johan Lantz (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a context scanner, an emotion feedback module, and a processing unit. The context scanner scans an area during a predetermined time period to detect position and proximity information of the electronic device of a user. The position information indicates the geographic location...