ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,027, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Gaze initiated actions" was invented by Rohit Prasad (Lexington, Mass.), Arushan Rajasekaram (North Bend, Wash.), Furqan Muhammad Khan (Culver City, Calif.) and Rajiv M Reddy (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that detects the location of a user gaze at a display and in response to the duration of the gaze exceeding a threshold, auto-playing content on the display. The system may also determine gaze event data associating the gaze event with the source of the content the user is gazing at. Other information may also be associated with t...