US Patent Issued to Colgate-Palmolive on July 1 for "Skin care implement and system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,557, issued on July 1, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Skin care implement and system" was invented by Hrebesh Molly Subhash (Somerset, N.J.) and Deborah Ann Peru (Lebanon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system for monitoring acne is disclosed. A sensor device includes an image sensor and a position sensor. A processing device receives image data and position data from the sensor device. The processing device then combines portions of the image data for different images to generate composite image data, the combination being based on the corresponding position data for each image. A user in...