US Patent Issued to Intuitive Research and Technology, The UAB Research Foundation on March 3 for "Image analysis using gaze tracking and utterance dictation" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,495, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intuitive Research and Technology Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.) and The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Image analysis using gaze tracking and utterance dictation" was invented by Junjian Huang (Birmingham, Ala.), Chanler Megan Crowe Cantor (Madison, Ala.) and Steven Michael Thomas (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating images are disclosed. An image is displayed. Data corresponding to a gaze fixation of a user who is viewing the image is obtained. An image artifact is identified based on the gaze fixation. The image artifact is at a location in the imag...