ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,025, issued on April 15, was assigned to KOSHAYOJAN SERVICES LTD..

"Content interaction system and method with presence detection and emotional state determination to recommend a piece of interactive content" was invented by Chamli Tennakoon (Corona, Calif.), Subhash Chandra (Corona, Calif.) and Amit Goenka (Corona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content interaction system and method allow a user to simultaneously interact with a piece of content using three, four or five senses (such as sound, sight and smell in one example) of the user. In one embodiment, a presence detection element may detect the presence of a person adja...