ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,444, issued on June 24, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Natural physio-optical user interface for intraocular microdisplay" was invented by Shungneng Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Supriyo Sinha (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Dimitri Azar (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraocular micro-display (IOMD) system includes an auxiliary head unit. The auxiliary head unit includes a frame for mounting to a head of a user, a scene camera module mounted in or on the frame in a forward-facing orientation, a gaze tracking module disposed in or on the frame and configured to monitor an eye of the user, and an auxiliary control...