ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,062, issued on June 23.

"Application based determination of a degree of inebriation" was invented by Jesse Ohayon (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, application program, smart device, and computer system may capture images of a face of a user, determine one or more vital signs of the user by image processing optionally assisted by a machine learning model, determine a physiological state for one or more of the vital signs with a computational model generated by another machine learning model, determine a pupil-to-iris pixel ratio for an eye of the user in at least one of the plurality of images, and determine a de...