US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Eye tracking based selection of a user interface (UI) element based on targeting criteria" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,330, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Eye tracking based selection of a user interface (UI) element based on targeting criteria" was invented by Bryce L. Schmidtchen (San Francisco), Ioana Negoita (San Jose, Calif.), Anshu K. Chimalamarri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gregory Lutter (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Thomas J. Moore (Cupertino, Calif.) and Trevor J. McIntyre (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a first user interface (UI) element ...