ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,157, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Planner for an objective-effectuator" was invented by Mark Drummond (Palo Alto, Calif.), Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Bo Morgan (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an objective for a computer-generated reality (CGR) representation of an objective-effectuator. In some implementations, the objective is associated with a plurality of time frames. In some implementations, the method includes determining a plurality of candidate plans that satisfy the objective. In some ...