ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,480, issued on March 24, was assigned to ATIEVA INC. (Newark, Calif.).

"Use of gaze technology for highlighting and selecting different items on a vehicle display" was invented by Rodrigo Cardenas Islas Bustamante (Newark, Calif.) and Sepehr Pourrezaei Khaligh (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for selecting and implementing automobile system function selectable by an eye gaze of a driver of a vehicle. In some implementations, the method can include receiving, via gaze sensors, gaze data indicative of the eye g...