ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,475, issued on July 15, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for providing augmented reality-based makeup product sets in a messaging system" was invented by Serhii Dehtiarov (Kyiv, Ukraine), Yuliia Khoryshko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Jean Luo (Seattle), Bogdan Maksymchuk (Los Angeles), Vincent Sung (Los Angeles) and Evelina Yatselenko (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing augmented reality-based makeup. The program ...