US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 3 for "Eye tracking, physiology for shared situational awareness" (Maryland, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,253, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Eye tracking, physiology for shared situational awareness" was invented by Peggy Wu (Ellicott City, Md.) and Andrew Radlbeck (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A team monitoring system receives data for determining user situational awareness and/or surprise for each team member. A team metric of situational awareness and/or surprise is determined for the entire team based on individual user situational awareness and/or surprise correlated to discreet portions of a task. User situational awareness and/or surprise may be determine...