ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,657, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for navigating user interfaces" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Jay Moon (San Francisco), Jesse Chand (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), William A. Sorrentino III (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dorian D. Dargan (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates between user interfaces based at least on detecting a gaze of the user. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with control elements of user interfaces....