ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,707, issued on April 15, was assigned to VISIONAI GMBH (Switzerland).

"Method, system and for generating treatment recommendations based on images of a facial region of a human subject" was invented by Adnan Tufail (London Southwark, Great Britain), Yuntai Aaron Lee (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Peter Maloca (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating treatment recommendations based on images of a facial region of a human subject comprises the steps of acquiring at least one image of the facial region and generating image data representing the at least one image; processing the image data and additional i...