US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Method and device for automatic authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,032, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and device for automatic authentication" was invented by Thomas G. Salter (Foster City, Calif.) and Rahul Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of authenticating a user is performed by a first device including a camera, an eye tracker, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, via the camera, an image of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the image of the physical environment, a second device. The method includes determining, using the eye tra...