ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,131, issued on April 7, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (Xi'an City, China).

"Children visual attention abnormal screening method, involves extracting eye movement, facial expression and head movement multi-mode characteristic of children based on multimodal data learning" was invented by Chen Xia (Xi'an City, China), Hexu Chen (Xi'an City, China), Junwei Han (Xi'an City, China), Lei Guo (Xi'an City, China), Kuan Li (Xi'an City, China), Chi Zhang (Xi'an City, China) and Zhihong Xu (Xi'an City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for screening mobile terminal visual atte...