ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,258, issued on March 4, was assigned to Elm Co. (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Gaze target detection method and system" was invented by Athul M. Mathew (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Arshad Ali Khan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Riad Souissi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a target of a subject's gaze from an image of the subject within a scene is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing the image and determining information associated with the image. A processor configured to analyze the image and determine information associated with the image is also disclosed. Finally, a non-transitory computer reada...