US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 8 for "Mixed reality interaction with eye-tracking techniques" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,514, issued on April 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Mixed reality interaction with eye-tracking techniques" was invented by Justin Strawn (San Francisco) and Nathan Aschenbach (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mixed reality (MR) user interactions are enabled through a combination of eye tracking (user gaze determination) and secondary inputs such as finger gestures, hand gestures, eye gestures, wrist band device input, handheld controller input, and similar ones. A location of interest in displayed content may be identified through the user's gaze, fixation, and/or saccades, or other a...