ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,680, issued on March 11, was assigned to B&R Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Color conversion system and method" was invented by Mitchell H. Saranow (Winnetka, Ill.) and Michael Wright (Lisle, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for preparing a hair dye color mixture. The method includes: accessing a control system having at least a processor, a memory, and user input controls, the memory configured to store ingredients of a hair dye color mixture, receiving user input from the user input controls to change one or more ingredients of the hair dye color mixture to a new product brand; matching the color of the hair dye ...