ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,318, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Determining a mood for a group" was invented by Sheldon Chang (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a mood for a crowd is disclosed. In example embodiments, a method includes identifying an event that includes two or more attendees, receiving at least one indicator representing emotions of attendees, determining a numerical value for each of the indicators, and aggregating the numerical values to determine an aggregate mood of the attendees of the event."
The patent was filed on June 6, 2023, under Application No. ...