ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,972,277, issued on April 30, was assigned to LOVINGLY LLC (Fishkill, N.Y.).

"Emotionally driven software interaction experience" was invented by Joseph Vega (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Kenny Garland (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Daniela Virginia Marquez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Marque Nolan Staneluis (Bronx, N.Y.), Dennis Park-Rodriguez (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Ryan Wesley A. Lowe (Cold Spring, N.Y.), Lakshmi Pillai (Fishkill, N.Y.), James Craig Rosenthal (Newburgh, N.Y.), Matthew Zangen (New Paltz, N.Y.), Kaitlin Heather Schupp (Kingston, N.Y.) and Danielle Sarah Gorton (Beacon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining an ...