ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,796, issued on June 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gaze data generation for in-cabin monitoring systems and applications" was invented by Martin Hempel (Mountain View, Calif.), Nishant Puri (San Francisco), Anshul Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Chun-Wei Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Dae Jin Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Frederic Vatnsdal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and method are provided for generation of ground truth gaze data for training in-cabin monitoring systems and applications. A gaze target projector mounted to a known position inside a cabin may be used to proje...