ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,475, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nailomatic Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Automated nail polish application apparatus" was invented by Avichay Mor Yosef (Jerusalem), Ron Miller (Herzlia, Israel), Gil Sokol (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Omri Moran (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nail polish application apparatus, comprising a mounting element comprising a capsule compartment adapted to receive one or more capsules containing a nail polish fluid wherein the mounting element is moveable by actuator(s) in longitudinal axis crossing a nail polish applying space and in lateral axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and is ...