ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,269, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent America LLC.

"Control method and device for near eye display system" was invented by John D. Le (Woodbury, Minn.), Kun Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yi Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Youngshik Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hao Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hongdong Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jianru Shi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a near eye display system, includes determining a target area of a display of the near eye display system, the target area of the display being an area that a user wearing the near eye display system is looking at, and controlling...