ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,599, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and device for generating an animation graph" was invented by Aashi Manglik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaun D. Budhram (Los Gatos, Calif.), Edward Ahn (San Francisco), Mark E. Drummond (Palo Alto, Calif.), Noah Gamboa (San Francisco) and Behrooz Mahasseni (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the method includes: obtaining a plurality of animations; determining initial and end motion states for each of the plurality of animations; generating an animation graph including no...