ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,666, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Autocalibration of gaze indicator" was invented by Akanksha Saran (Jersey City, N.J.), Jacob A. Alber (Sharon, Mass.), Danielle Karen Bragg (New York), Cyril Zhang (New York) and John Carol Langford (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for calibration of a gaze indicator. A method can include receiving gaze tracker output data that indicates a gaze location on a display at which a user is gazing, determining an expected gaze location to which the user is expected to gaze a...