US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Devices and methods for motion planning of computer characters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,992, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for motion planning of computer characters" was invented by Daniel Kurz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Novaira Masood (San Jose, Calif.), Shem Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.) and Jeremy R. Bernstein (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-generated environment may include computer characters. Characteristics of the real-world environment are estimated and the interactions between computer characters and the real-world environment can be based on the estimated characteristics."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18...