ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,822, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sephora USA Inc. (San Francisco).
"Diverse cosmetic and skin care product matching system" was invented by Prasad Tendulkar (Foster City, Calif.), Nelly Mensah (San Francisco), Anna Teresa Nicholas (Hazelton, Pa.), Jillian Bertone (Lafayette, Calif.), Lisa Zhu (Belmont, Calif.), Jennifer Stokes (Seattle), Witono Liujanto (San Ramon, Calif.), Aaron Oelckers (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Marc McCotter (Hana, Hawaii), Harsha Huddar (Livermore, Calif.), Fiona Kavanagh (San Francisco), Amit Adiraju Narasimha (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Naroju Janardhan (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vari...