US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for simultaneous eye characteristic tracking and eye model updating" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,500, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for simultaneous eye characteristic tracking and eye model updating" was invented by Hao Qin (Saratoga, Calif.), Chia-Yin Tsai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.), Hua Gao (San Jose, Calif.) and Jie Zhong (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include an inconspicuous eye enrollment for user devices through the simultaneous or near-simultaneous eye characteristic tracking and eye model updating. The implementations disclosed herein direct light towards an eye...