ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,922, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for logging and interacting with emotional valence data" was invented by Lindsey Maratta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dima Badawi (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Antonio Checa Oloriz (San Francisco), Pablo F. Caro (San Francisco), Marie E. Dommenget (San Francisco), Bradley W. Griffin (Aptos, Calif.), James J. Owen (San Francisco), Stacie R. Terhaar (Glendale, Ariz.), Niharika Bedekar (San Francisco), Raphael A. Bernier (Seattle), Jessica Ficklin (Encinitas, Calif.) and Michael Pangburn (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure gen...