ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,975, issued on June 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Personal device activation and unlocking using gaze tracking" was invented by Fredrik Dahlgren (Lund, Sweden) and Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods of activating a display screen of a device. Such methods include establishing respective connections with one or more candidate devices, each having a candidate display screen, and obtaining angle of arrival information of respective signals transmitted from the candidate display screens or from the candidate devices. Such methods include s...