US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 25 for "Three-dimensional-image-based eye tracking using triangulation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,133, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional-image-based eye tracking using triangulation" was invented by Nino Zahirovic (Waterloo, Canada), Fan Yang (London, Canada), Brendan O'Hanlon (Mountain View, Calif.), Kenneth McCoubrey (Kitchener, Canada), Duncan Wesley Strathearn (Waterloo, Canada) and Niladri Sarkar (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for eye-tracking by steering a scan beam in a two-dimensional pattern over a scan region on the eye and detecting light reflected from a plurality of reflection point...