ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,346, issued on April 15, was assigned to CLICS LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for coloring hair" was invented by Charles D. Brown (San Diego), Leilani M. Macedo (La Jolla, Calif.), Heidi L. Buck (San Diego), Jeffrey S. Ploetner (San Diego), Eric C. Hallenborg (La Mesa, Calif.), Stuart D'Alessandro (La Jolla, Calif.) and Wildon Zissel (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for scanning a client's hair color and dispensing hair coloring to change the clients hair color from an initial color to a target color is disclosed. The system comprises an input for reading the measured color from the scanning device, a process...