ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,811, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for eye tracking and interactive entertainment control" was invented by Charles Mccoy (San Diego) and True Xiong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, process, and device configurations are provided for eye tracking and interactive game control. A method can include detecting eye tracking data for at least one user during the presentation of the gaming content and determining a player engagement parameter for the gaming content based on the eye tracking data. Presentation of the gaming content may be update...