ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,017, issued on March 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gaze determination machine learning system having adaptive weighting of inputs" was invented by Nishant Puri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning systems and methods that determine gaze direction by using face orientation information, such as facial landmarks, to modify eye direction information determined from images of the subject's eyes. System inputs include eye crops of the eyes of the subject, as well as face orientation information such as facial landmarks of the subject's face in the input image. Facial orientation informa...