US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on Dec. 30 for "System and method for attentional multimodal pain estimation" (Maryland, Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,948, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"System and method for attentional multimodal pain estimation" was invented by Md Sirajus Salekin (Woodbridge, Va.), Ghadh Alzamzmi (Rockville, Md.), Dmitry Goldgof (Lutz, Fla.), Yu Sun (Tampa, Fla.), Thao Ho (Riverview, Fla.) and Peter Randolph Mouton (Gulfport, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based system and method for generating a pain score of a subject using one or more sensory signals extracted from an AV signal of the subject. The AV signal may comprise one or more sensory signals including a face sensory signal, a body sensory s...