ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,322, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Attention redirection of a user of a wearable device" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco) and Maksym Dzitsiuk (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including determining a gaze direction of a user of a wearable device, capturing an image using a forward-looking camera of the wearable device, detecting a surroundings of the user based on the image, determining whether or not the user is distracted based on the gaze direction and the surroundings, and in response to determining the user is distracted, causing an operation to be perform...