ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,733, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system to control a workflow and method and system for providing a set of task-specific control parameters" was invented by Eberhard Schmidt (Kleinmachnow, Germany) and Tom Sengelaub (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and method to control a workflow comprising at least one task to be performed by a person (P3), wherein information is provided about at least one certain object (20, 32, 36, 38) related to the at least one task of the workflow, eye data (24, 26) are captured of at least one eye of the person (P3), and...