ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,664, issued on March 18, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Computing device, method and apparatus for recommending at least one of a makeup palette or a hair coloration scheme" was invented by Shuting Li (Shanghai), Tingting Zhu (Shanghai), Qing Jiang (Shanghai), Jun Wu (Shanghai) and Honghui Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for recommending at least one of a makeup palette or a hair coloration scheme are provided. The method comprises extracting a color set of at least one region of a digital image associated with a user (201); generating color recommendation information for at least one of a makeup...