ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,793, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System control identification with gaze tracking" was invented by Michael Robillard (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Yichun Xu (Everett, Mass.) and Xuebin He (Westwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enabling user control of a display screen. The example method includes tracking, by a camera, a position of a pupil of an eye of a human user who is positioned to be able to view multiple display screens, determining a location of the pupil within the eye, determining, as among the display screens, and based on the location of the pupil, which of the ...