ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,923, issued on July 1, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Augmented reality cosmetic design filters" was invented by David Kosecoff (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for generating, sharing, and presenting augmented reality cosmetic design filters. One or more non-transitory computer memory devices can store computer-readable instructions that, when executed by computing circuitry, cause the computing circuitry to perform operations for generating augmented reality cosmetic design filters. The operations can include defining a baseline description of a biological surface using one or more radia...