ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,943, issued on June 16, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for extracting information from documents via eye gaze tracking" was invented by Nancy Thomas (New York) and Daniel Borrajo (Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for using eye gaze tracking to extract information in textual form from documents is provided. The method includes: receiving an image that corresponds to a document; receiving, from an eye-tracking sensor configured to detect a sequence of eye-gaze positions on the document as a function of time, a sequence of measurements that correspond t...