ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,571, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Skin evaluation device, skin evaluation system, skin evaluation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program for skin evaluation" was invented by Hisashi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin evaluation device includes: a light source that projects a dot pattern created by first light onto a skin of at least one user; an image sensor that generates and outputs image data which indicates an image of the skin onto which the dot pattern is projected; a memory that stores r...