ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,939, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for enabling facial browsing of a display based on movement of facial features" was invented by Saikiran N. Chavali (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may receive an image of a user, and may process the image, with a model, to identify a face of the user and key markers of the face. The user device my process the face and the key markers, with the model, to identify features of the face, and may calculate a z-index representing a distance between the face and a display. The user device may cal...