ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,939, issued on May 26, was assigned to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daegu, South Korea).

"Pain measuring device and pain measuring method" was invented by Jinung An (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a pain measuring device and a main measuring method. More particularly, the pain measuring device may control a temperature provided from a temperature stimulator, receive, from a user input portion, a user input for recording a level of stimulation according to the temperature, obtain, from a camera, image data representing a change in an external shape of a user according to the stimu...