US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for tracking eye movement in conjunction with a light scanning projector" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,021, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Method and system for tracking eye movement in conjunction with a light scanning projector" was invented by Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle), Mathew D. Watson (Bellevue, Wash.), Samuel Scott Frank (Shoreline, Wash.) and Charles David Melville (Camano Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye tracking system includes a pair of glasses including two frames, a projector coupled to the pair of glasses and operable to project a beam of light, and an eyepiece mounted in one of the two frames and optically coupled to the projector. The eyepiece is operable t...