US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Pupil modulation as a cognitive control signal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,865, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pupil modulation as a cognitive control signal" was invented by Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.), Avi Bar-Zeev (Oakland, Calif.), Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.), Fletcher R. Rothkopf (Los Altos, Calif.), Holly Gerhard (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lilli I. Jonsson (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One exemplary implementation provides an improved user experience on a device by using physiological data to initiate a user interaction for the user experience based on an identified interest or intention of a user. For example, a sensor may obtain ...