US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Using a gaze at real-world objects to suggest an input using a different input modality for a head-wearable device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,889, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Using a gaze at real-world objects to suggest an input using a different input modality for a head-wearable device" was invented by William Crosby Presant (Seattle), Francislav P. Penov (Kirkland, Wash.) and Anuj Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method described herein includes receiving an initial input of a first input modality from a user at a head-wearable device. The first input modality comprises a gaze at a real-world object. In accordance with a determination that the gaze remains at the real-world object ...