ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,120, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System for predicting one or more specific cognitive states based on non-neural physiological data" was invented by Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan (Macomb, Mich.), Maureen Elizabeth August (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.), Brianna M. Duffy (La Jolla, Calif.), Mia Levy (Venice, Calif.), Andrew Howe (Malibu, Calif.), Rodolfo Valiente Romero (Calabasas, Calif.) and Evelyn Kim (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting one or more specific cognitive states of an individual based on non-neural physiological data collected by one...