US Patent Issued to Insight Direct USA on May 26 for "Adjusting mental state to improve task performance" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,116, issued on May 26, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Adjusting mental state to improve task performance" was invented by Michael Griffin (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting mental state includes acquiring video data of an individual, extracting image data and audio data from the video data, extracting semantic text data from the audio data, identifying a first set of features, predicting a baseline mental state, identifying a target mental state, and simulating a predicted path from the baseline mental state to the target mental state. The baseline mental state is predicte...