ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,651, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HairLooks Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for hair-service based digital image searching and ranking" was invented by Jessica Joyce-Brady (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing a hair-service based digital image search engine and ranking comprising the step of providing a hair-service search engine, wherein the hair-service search engine receives a digitalized hair-style portfolio from a hair stylist. The hair-style portfolio comprises a set of hair-style digital images. The set of hair-style digital images comprises on...