ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,138, issued on April 21, was assigned to THE THIRD RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY (China).

"Safe driving early warning system based on driver emotion intervention" was invented by Caixia Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a safe driving early warning system for intervention based on driver emotions. The system obtains current driver facial expression dynamics through a driver emotion real-time recognition unit, performs intelligent emotional analysis based on the obtained facial expression dynamics, and controls a vehicle running status based on a real-time emotion recogni...