ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,279, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NISSIN DENKI KOHSAKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Takaharu Tachibana (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Ishibashi (Osaka, Japan) and Nobuhiro Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method of recognizing, through use of a computer, input of direction information through eyeball movement of a user and performing processing corresponding to a predetermined GUI element, includes setting a previously acquired eyeball position of the user as a reference eyeball...