US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Unified animation API" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,723, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Unified animation API" was invented by Naveen K. Vemuri (Mountain View, Calif.), David A. Yen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joshua J. Taylor (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of displaying an animation is performed by a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes executing a 2D animation system process, executing a 3D animation system process, and executing a 3D animation application process including a 3D animation definition defining an animation changing a targe...