US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Content manipulation via a computer-generated representation of a trackpad" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,469, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Content manipulation via a computer-generated representation of a trackpad" was invented by Anette L. Freiin von Kapri (Mountain View, Calif.), Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Benjamin R. Blachnitzky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a first gaze position within a content manipulation region based on eye tracking data from an eye tracker. The method includes determining a selection point associated with a physical surface, based on spatial selector data from a spatial selector tracker. The method includes displayin...