ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,078, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).
"Gaze aware reading assistance system" was invented by Yuhang Zhao (Waunakee, Wis.) and Ru Wang (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reader assistance device employs eye tracking to infer an individual's reading progress which is then used to provide visual aids by highlighting words as they have been read and the next line of words as well as to provide additional magnification or spoken versions of words that are difficult to comprehend reflected by the inferred reading progress. The inferred reading progress may also indicate s...