ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,388, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for eye-gaze direction-based pre-training of neural networks" was invented by Ron M. Hecht (Raanana, Israel), Omer Tsimhoni (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Dan Levi (Ganei Tikvah, Israel), Shaul Oron (Rehovot, Israel), Andrea Forgacs (Kfar Sava, Israel), Ohad Rahamim (Netanya, Israel) and Gershon Celniker (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a disparity estimation network. The method includes obtaining an eye-gaze dataset having first images with at least one gaze direction associated with each of the f...