ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,000, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Systems, devices, and methods to optimize a cosmetic manufacturing process" was invented by Tiffany James (Clichy, France) and Gregoire Charraud (Clichy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provide that is configured to execute a contest that includes displaying an image of a face of a model, among a plurality of models, to a user; receive inputs from the user to adjust a color of a blended cosmetic product to be applied to the face of the model; display the model with the adjusted color selected by the user; receive the image of the face of the model with the ad...