US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 14 for "Combined eye and environment sensing for a head-mounted device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,306, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Combined eye and environment sensing for a head-mounted device" was invented by Yatong An (Redmond, Wash.), Zhaoyu Nie (Kenmore, Wash.) and Youmin Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye and environment sensing system for a head-mounted device may be configured to determine changes in an eye orientation and range objects in the environment by sharing a common light source. The eye and environment sensing system includes a light source, a first photodetector, and a second photodetector. The light source is coupled to a fr...