US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 4 for "Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for goal-based animation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,342, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for goal-based animation" was invented by Gregory Duquesne (San Carlos, Calif.) and Arnold H. Cachelin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-generated environment may include a virtual agent and a plurality of targets. Movements of the virtual agent to the plurality of targets can be defined and the movements of the virtual agent to the plurality of targets may be interpolated, such that to generate an interpolated animation path of movement of the virtual agent to the first target and to the se...