US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Interaction events based on physiological response to illumination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,598, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Interaction events based on physiological response to illumination" was invented by Brian Pasley (Berkeley, Calif.) and Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine an interaction event during presentation of an interaction element. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data associated with a pupil during presentation of an interaction element, determining, based on the obtained physiological data, a pupillary respon...