ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,617, issued on July 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing augmented reality-based makeup in a messaging system" was invented by Riccardo Boscolo (Culver City, Calif.), Jean Luo (Seattle), Vincent Sung (Los Angeles) and Ibram Uppal (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

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 and method provide for receiving a request to present augmented reality content in association with an image captured by a device camera, the im...