ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,986, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTH CARE LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile terminal and cosmetics automatic recognition system" was invented by Hae Young Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Bok Hyun Pack (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a cosmetics automatic recognition system capable of recognizing cosmetics located nearby and recommending a make-up method using the recognized cosmetics. The present invention may comprise a mobile terminal including: an RFID reader unit configured to recognize cosmetics through an RFID tag attached to a co...