ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,480, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and method for optimized hairstyle guide generation" was invented by Jeroen Keijer (Groningen, Netherlands), Cornelis Johannes Zandsteeg (Usselmuiden, Netherlands), Shaik Khader Basha (Bangalore, India) and Roderik De Vries (Drachten, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for generating an optimized hairstyle guide for use with a hair clipper. The method comprises acquiring (202) a plurality of reference points for mapping a hairstyle onto the head of a subject, receiving (204) a fi...