ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,773, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ams International AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Eye movement determination" was invented by Daniel Najer (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jens Geiger (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ferran Suarez (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Laurent Nevou (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Svenja Mauthe (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a display of a virtual reality or augmented reality headset includes determining a direction of movement of a user's eye, estimating a future gaze direction from the determined direction of movement, and rendering an image on the display having higher resolution...