ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,664, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Eye tracking and gaze estimation using off-axis camera" was invented by Zhengyang Wu (Bellewue, Wash.), Srivignesh Rajendran (San Francisco), Tarrence van As (New York), Joelle Zimmermann (Los Angeles), Vijay Badrinarayanan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Rabinovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to the computation of gaze vectors of users of wearable devices are disclosed. A neural network may be trained through first and second training steps. The neural network may include a set of feature encoding layers and a plurality...