ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,897, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Eye tracking system" was invented by Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki (Los Altos, Calif.), Se Baek Oh (Cupertino, Calif.), Scott M. DeLapp (Cupertino, Calif.), Christopher F. Griffo (Cupertino, Calif.), Bradley C. Steele (Cupertino, Calif.), Ting Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Kenichi Saito (Cupertino, Calif.) and Noah D. Bedard (Pacifica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye tracking system for detecting position and movements of a user's eyes in a head-mounted display (HMD). The eye tracking system includes at least one eye tracking camera, an illumination source t...