ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,614, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Optical systems with one dimensional eye tracking" was invented by Itai Afek (Ramat Gan, Israel), Ariel Lipson (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Ott (Boulder, Colo.), Maria I Campana (Boulder, Colo.), Roei Remez (Tel Aviv, Israel), Lionel E Edwin (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Young (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may use a waveguide to provide image light to an eye box. An emitter may emit infrared light collimated at different angles relative to a collimated axis and divergent along an orthogonal axis. The waveguide may propagate the infra...