ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,832, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for optical signature generation and authentication" was invented by Shreya Nanda Rajampet (Hyderabad, India) and Viraj Chandrakant Mantri (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may track a gaze of a user. The device may detect a direction of the gaze of the user. The device may detect eye movement data associated with one or more changes in the direction of the gaze of the user. The device may translate the eye movement data associated with the one or more changes in the direc...