US Patent Issued to Valve on June 3 for "Optical tracking including imaging-based angle sensitive detectors" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,514, issued on June 3, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Optical tracking including imaging-based angle sensitive detectors" was invented by Joshua Mark Hudman (Issaquah, Wash.) and Kameron Wade Rausch (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of object tracking for use in various applications, such as eye tracking in virtual reality or augmented reality applications that include head-mounted display devices. An eye tracking system may be provided that includes a plurality of assemblies that each include a light detector, such as a quadrant photodetector, a...