ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,274, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for changing a display based on user input and gaze" was invented by Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco), Benjamin H. Boesel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David H. Huang (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Perron (Felton, Calif.), Jonathan Ravasz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jordan A. Cazamias (San Francisco) and Tyson Erze (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of activating a user interface element is performed at a device including an input device, an eye tracker, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. Th...