US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for context-aware anxiety interventions" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,671, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Systems and methods for context-aware anxiety interventions" was invented by Bethany A. Teachman (Charlottesville, Va.), Laura E. Barnes (Earlysville, Va.) and Mehdi Boukhechba (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anxiety microdose intervention delivery system receives, from a plurality of biomarker sensors, a positional parameter associated with a user's position, a social parameter associated with a user's social interaction, and a set of physiological parameters associated with a user's physiological state. Th...