US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 9 for "Non-textual communication and user states management" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,279, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Non-textual communication and user states management" was invented by Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Chunjong Park (Seattle), Fannie Liu (Seattle) and Yu Jiang Tham (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system include receiving a first signal value generated by a biosignal sensor coupled to the first client device, receiving one or more second signal values corresponding to a respective sensor reading or environmental condition associated with the first client device, determining a total score based on a first score and one or more secon...