US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for gaze-based navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,907, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for gaze-based navigation" was invented by Pol Pla I Conesa (San Francisco), Bas Ording (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco) and Peter D. Anton (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device expands an item of content in accordance with detection of a user's gaze. In some embodiments, an electronic device scrolls text of a content item in accordance with a determination that the user is reading the content item. ...