ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,292, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Aptima Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).
"State assessment system and methods of use" was invented by Olivia Fox Cotton (Centerville, Ohio), Lisa Lucia (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Jordan Coker (Auburn, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state assessment system is provided to determine a state of a subject with an analytics subsystem based on data from a physiological sensor. In some embodiments, the physiological sensor is a fNIRS sensor and the analytics subsystem is configured to determine a hemoglobin measure from the physiological data, determine a neural activation measure from the hemoglobin measure...