ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,580, issued on March 25, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Device and method for detection" was invented by Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device for detecting an eyeball includes a frame element, a transceiver, and a contact lens element. The transceiver is disposed on the frame element. The transceiver transmits a first RF (Radio Frequency) signal. The contact lens element includes a resonator. The resonator converts the first RF signal into a first ultrasonic signal. The first ul...