ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,142, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying sets of controls in response to gaze and/or gesture inputs" was invented by Jonathan Ravasz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Angel Suet Yan Cheung (San Francisco), Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi (San Jose, Calif.), Leah M. Gum (Sunol, Calif.), Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.), Matan Stauber (San Francisco), Yonghyun A. Kim (San Francisco), Gregory T. Scott (Soquel, Calif.), Lucio Moreno Rufo (San Jose, Calif.), Fredric R. Vinna (San Francisco), Brian K. Shiraishi (Belmont, Calif...