ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,818, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Systems and methods of capturing eye-gaze data" was invented by Jatin Sharma (Sammamish, Wash.), Jonathan T. Campbell (Redmond, Wash.), Jay C. Beavers (Duvall, Wash.) and Peter John Ansell (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for collecting eye-gaze data for training an eye-gaze prediction model. The collecting includes selecting a scan path passing through a series of regions of a grid on a screen of a computing device, moving a symbol as an eye-gaze target along the scan path, and receiving facial ...