ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,675, issued on June 10, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for automated passive assessment of visuospatial memory and/or salience" was invented by Allan Levey (Atlanta), Gari Clifford (Atlanta), Rafi Haque (Atlanta), Cecelia Manzanares (Atlanta) and LaVonda Brown (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining a qualitative, quantitative and/or categorical assessment of one or more users and/or images with respect to one or more populations. The eye movement data of the user may be obtained with respect to each image of the one or more images displayed for a period of tim...