US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "User eye model match detection" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,980, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User eye model match detection" was invented by Hao Qin (Saratoga, Calif.), Hua Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.) and Jie Zhong (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for providing eye model matching in a device are disclosed. When a user activates a device and the presence of the user's eye is detected, an image of the user's eye is captured. An eye model matching process is then implemented to determine a stored eye model (e.g., an eye model stored after enrollment of the eye on the device) that best mat...