ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,472, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for displaying a visual indication in a user interface based on user interaction" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco) and Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaze virtual object is displayed that is selectable based on attention directed to the gaze virtual object to perform an operation associated with a selectable virtual object. An indication of attention of a user is displayed. An enlarged view of a region of a user interface is displayed. A value of a slider e...