ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,920, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Gaze-based copresence system" was invented by Jay Mayur Khandhar (Milpitas, Calif.), Borna Ghavam (San Francisco), Jinbo Qiu (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher M. Garrido (Santa Clara, Calif.), Karthick Santhanam (Campbell, Calif.), Patrick Miauton (Redwood City, Calif.), Xiaosong Zhou (Campbell, Calif.), Dazhong Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Kristian D. Pereira (San Jose, Calif.) and Dan Miao (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for transmitting data in a copresence environment includes initiating a virtual communication session between a local ...