US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Prevention of unconsented emotional response data capture" (Canadian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,837, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Prevention of unconsented emotional response data capture" was invented by Marc P. Yvon (Antony, France), Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada) and Sara E Berger (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for prevention of unconsented emotional response data capture by immersive applications. The method includes obtaining identified emotional stimuli in an immersive application that are associated with emotional response data capture. The method determines if there is a r...