ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,001, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality beauty product tutorials" was invented by Christine Barron (Los Angeles), Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Jean Luo (Seattle), Alek Matthiessen (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles), Jonathan Solichin (Arcadia, Calif.) and Olesia Voronova (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for augmented reality beauty product tutorials are disclosed. Methods disclose displaying on a first portion of a screen a beauty product tutorial including pre-recorded images o...