US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 28 for "Gaze-based active device identification and management" (Texas, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,677, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Gaze-based active device identification and management" was invented by Daniel Ajagbusi (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Edna Tovar (Austin, Texas) and Su Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to gaze-based active device identification and management. At a first time, at least one reference gaze image of a user while the user is gazing at a first user device of a plurality of user devices in an environment of the user can be collected. At a second time, a current gaze image of the user can be coll...