ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,156, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Eye monitoring system and method" was invented by Philip Cockram (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with a head-mountable display device, HMD, operable to present content to a user, the system comprising a temperature sensor unit configured to detect a temperature associated with at least one of the user's eyes and/or an ambient temperature associated with the HMD, a blink sensor unit configured to detect blinking of one or both of the user's eyes, a threshold determination unit configured to determine a threshold value for a blin...