US Patent Issued to L'Oreal on Feb. 17 for "Visual assistance for precise beauty tool positioning and self application at home" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,997, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Visual assistance for precise beauty tool positioning and self application at home" was invented by Gregoire Charraud (Jersey City, N.J.) and Haruna Peyret (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held dispenser device includes a dispensing nozzle, wherein the dispensing nozzle is configured to point toward a dispensing direction, a camera configured to receive an image of a dispensing zone that the dispensing nozzle points toward, and a viewfinder that displays the image of the dispensing zone that the dispensing nozzle points toward. The camera and viewfinder ...