US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Internet of things configuration using eye-based controls" (Indian, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,436, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Internet of things configuration using eye-based controls" was invented by Jana H. Jenkins (Raleigh, N.C.), Mohammad Ismail (Toronto), Jothi Subramani (Bangalore, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to an Internet of Things configuration using eye-based controls, one or more computer processors receive an initiation of eye control of one or more computing devices from a user. One or more computer processors identify an eye gaze direction of the user. Based on the identified eye gaze d...