ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,499, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nice Ltd. (Ra'anana, Israel).

"Analyzing emotion in one or more video media streams" was invented by Ievgenii Kyienko-Romaniuk (Vinnytsia, Ukraine), Ihor Pastukh (Vinnytsia, Ukraine), Oksana Lisnychenko (Vinnytsia, Ukraine), Olena Bozhko (Vinnitsa, Ukraine), Yevgen Gavdan (Vinnitsa, Ukraine) and Yurij Shinkaruk (Vinnitsa, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analyzing emotion in a videoconference includes receiving video media stream(s) of a user participating in the videoconference. A face of the user is detected in frame(s) of the video media stream(s). An emotional state of the user is class...