ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,894, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mirro.ai (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for emotion detection, prediction, annotation, and coaching" was invented by Maithilee Lalit Samant (Los Gatos, Calif.), Barry Randall Schrag (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajashree Suresh Varma (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that performs emotion detection, prediction, and coaching system is disclosed. The system includes a media feature extractor, which extracts features from different media modalities, a perceiver module which detects or predicts emotional response for a given audience, a coaching module that generates c...