ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,392, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to APR Beauty Group Inc. (Canada).

"Brush for applying a cosmetic or a care product" was invented by Justin Lu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Feng-Ying Fu (Markham, Canada) and Jun Shen (Lighthouse Point, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brush for applying a product including a cosmetic, care, or pharmaceutical product onto the keratinous surface of a user. The applying member includes a support head and a plurality of bristles extends from a distal end face of the support head along a longitudinal axis of the support head. The distal end face of the support head comprises a first distal end face and a se...