US Patent Issued to Apple on May 19 for "Methods for interacting with user interfaces based on attention" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,170, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for interacting with user interfaces based on attention" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaze virtual object is displayed that is selectable based on attention directed to the gaze virtual object to perform an operation associated with a selectable virtual object. An indication of attention of a user is displayed. An enlarged view of a region of a user interface is displayed. A value of a sli...