US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Modifying a sound in a user environment in response to determining a shift in user attention" (Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,706, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Modifying a sound in a user environment in response to determining a shift in user attention" was invented by Nava K. Balsam (Woodinville, Wash.), Khia Johnson (Seattle), Haniyeh Salehi (Statesville, N.C.), Ishwarya Ananthabhotla (Cambridge, Mass.) and Antje Ihlefeld (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye tracking system tracks a position and an orientation of one or more eyes of a user of the eye tracking system and determines a gaze point of the user based on the position and the orientation of the user's eye(s). An audio sys...