ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,727, issued on June 16, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Method of evaluating people's performance under high cognitive load" was invented by Anastasiya Vladimirovna Bakhchina (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Maksim Varenov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Ivan Sergeevich Shishalov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Andrey Viktorovich Filimonov (Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia), Anastasiya Sergeevna Filatova (Balakhna, Russia) and Evgeny Pavlovich Burashnikov (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are herein providing for predicting driving performance based on mental state. In one ex...