ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,418, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Gaze assisted input for an electronic device" was invented by Roeland Petrus Hubertus Vertegaal (Perth Road Village, Canada) and Sean Brian Braley (Orillia, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system for gaze-assisted input that includes displaying a plurality of display elements in a display space, tracking a user's point of gaze within the display space, receiving a speech input, identifying one of the plurality of display elements as a subject display element for the speech input based on the tracking, and ...