ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,902, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Methods and systems for controlling vehicle functions with gaze" was invented by Sean Brian Braley (Orillia, Canada) and Roeland Petrus Hubertus Vertegaal (Perth Road, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for gaze-based control of vehicle functions and related methods includes eye contact sensors for monitoring one or both eyes of a user, manual input devices, and circuits configured for tracking a gaze of a user located within a vehicle, identifying a gaze condition from the eye contact sensors in response to determining the gaze of t...