ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,398, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bytedance Technology Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Camera architectures for combined eye-tracking and outward-tracking" was invented by Bowei Zhang (Los Angeles), Runyu Liu (Los Angeles) and Chien Hung Lu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of camera architectures for combined eye-tracking and outward-tracking are provided. One example includes a near-eye device comprising: a frame comprising an arm; an eye illuminator disposed on the arm of the frame, wherein the eye illuminator is configured to project light to an eye of a user; an imaging system disposed on the ...