ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,198, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Gaze based device control" was invented by Tao Zhang (Melrose, Mass.), Nima Mesgarani (New York), Sai Kiran Venkata Subramanya Rupanagudi (Burien, Wash.), Gregory Ciccarelli (Woburn, Mass.) and Prachi Patel (New Brunswick, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described apparatus, systems, and methods for audibly presenting multiple options to a user and using user signals received from a user device worn by or otherwise coupled to the user, that are generated without any need for physical motion-based interaction from the user, to determine a presented option...