ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,296, issued on May 27, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"Contemporaneously calibrating a gaze-tracking system and authorizing access to another system" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for contemporaneously calibrating a gaze-tracking system and authorizing access to a first other system can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a preliminary operations module, an authorization module, and a gaze-tracking module. The preliminary operations module can include instructions to compare...