ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,722, issued on May 13, was assigned to Shiseido Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and method for adjusting custom topical agents" was invented by Leslie Y. Harvill (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Kaialia Morrow (Calabasas, Calif.), Mandy Peiyin Lin (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Amy Jo Kim (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are developed which enable modification of an initial customized cosmetic product, wherein the initial customized cosmetic product is created based on an initial customized cosmetic product specification or an existing specification of a non-custom product. One such system for making a cu...