ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,234, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sesame AI Inc. (San Francisco).
"Gaze assisted search query" was invented by Robert Konrad Konrad (San Francisco), Gordon Wetzstein (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Conlon Boyle (San Francisco), John Gabriel Buckmaster (San Jose, Calif.) and Nitish Padmanaban (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enables a user to query based on a user's gaze by receiving a query from the user and capturing, via an eye tracking system on a headset, the user's gaze location near an object in a local area. The system captures one or more images of the local area with the object and formats the ima...