ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,861, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Eye-tracking assembly" was invented by Ivan S. Maric (Campbell, Calif.), Eric Shyr (San Francisco), James W. Sallay (Seattle), Aidan N. Zimmerman (Poway, Calif.), Shaw Chien Wu (Campbell, Calif.) and Keenan Molner (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mountable electronic device includes an optical module frame, a display coupled to the optical module frame and extending in a display plane, and an eye-tracking assembly. The eye-tracking assembly includes a flat electrical cable, for example a flexible printed circuit (FPC), coupled to the optical ...