ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,468, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Eye tracking in near-eye displays" was invented by Eric J. Seibel (Seattle), Steven L. Brunton (Seattle), Chen Gong (Seattle) and Brian T. Schowengerdt (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for tracking eye movement in an augmented reality system identify a plurality of base images of an object or a portion thereof. A search image may be generated based at least in part upon at least some of the plurality of base images. A deep learning result may be generated at least by performing a deep learning process on a base image using a neural ...