ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,164,687, issued on Dec. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Pupil modulation as a cognitive control signal" was invented by Avi Bar-Zeev (Oakland, Calif.), Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.), Fletcher R. Rothkopf (Los Altos, Calif.), Grant H. Mulliken (San Jose, Calif.), Holly E. Gerhard (Cupertino, Calif.) and Lilli I. Jonsson (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One exemplary implementation provides an improved user experience on a device by using physiological data to initiate a user interaction for the user experience based on an identified interest or intention of a user. For example, a sensor may obtai...