ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,961, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Controlling a function via gaze detection" was invented by Steven N. Bathiche (Bellevue, Wash.), Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain), Vivek Pradeep (Redmond, Wash.) and Alexandros Neofytou (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for controlling a function of a computing system using gaze detection. In examples, one or more images of a user are received and gaze information may be determined from the received one or more images. Non-gaze information may be recei...