ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,497, issued on March 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Gaze tracking based notification tracking timer" was invented by Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.), William Lawrence Kozlowski (Novi, Mich.) and Alexander Gene Rath (Fenton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a display screen communicatively coupled to a vehicle controller. A gaze tracking system in the vehicle includes at least one camera defining a field of view including at least a vehicle operator's face and a tracking control module is configured to determine a gaze direction of the vehicle operator based at least in part on ...