ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,041, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interactions and eye tracking with text embedded elements" was invented by Richard Ignatius Punsal Lozada (Cupertino, Calif.), Anshu K. Chimalamarri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bryce L. Schmidtchen (San Francisco), Gregory Lutter (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Paul Ewers (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Burgner (Venice, Calif.), Thomas J. Moore (Northglenn, Colo.) and Trevor J. McIntyre (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine whether the user is reading text or intends an inte...