ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,316, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing emotions of text and generating feedback responses on text" was invented by Yanjie Song (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Chi-Kin John Lee (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Kaiyi Wu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Qing Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for analyzing emotions of diaries and generating feedback response on diaries is provided. The apparatus includes a recorder, a negative-text analysis module, a positive-text adding module, and a visualization module. The recorder is config...