ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,596, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Eye detection methods and devices" was invented by Erdrin Azemi (San Mateo, Calif.), Ali Moin (San Mateo, Calif.), Christoph H. Krah (Cupertino, Calif.), Joseph Yitan Cheng (Cupertino, Calif.), Kaan Emre Dogrusoz (San Francisco) and Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device having a plurality of electrodes configured to detect optical events such as the movement of one or more eyes or coarse eye gestures is disclosed. In some examples, the one or more electrodes can be coupled to dielectric elastomer materials ...