ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,292, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTERCOS S.p.A. (Milan).

"Cosmetic product with surface decoration of dynamic images" was invented by Giuseppe Lattanzi (Limbiate, Italy) and Giovanni Venturelli (Paderno Dugnano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder cosmetic product in the form of a flat wafer or plate or extruded rod for lipsticks includes a cosmetic body with a visible surface provided with a plurality of protruding stripes with triangular section. Each stripe has a vertex, a first inclined side decorated with a portion of a first image, and a second inclined side decorated with a portion of a second image. By obser...