ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,077, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Retinal reflection tracking for gaze alignment" was invented by Arthur Y. Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Tong Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Siddharth S. Hazra (Hayward, Calif.) and Nicholas C. Soldner (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that initiate an action based on a detected gaze direction oriented towards a target area (e.g., a hot corner/zone). For example, an example process may include producing a reflection by directing light towards an eye using an illuminator, recei...