ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,976, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and method for hybrid control using eye tracking" was invented by Heath Feather (Cupertino, Calif.), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexandre V. Matveev (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console for a medical includes a display, an eye tracking input module, a second input module, and one or more processors coupled to the display, the eye tracking input module, and the second input module. The one or more processors is configured to perform operations including receiving a first user input from the e...