ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,097, issued on June 2, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Method for determining a skin colour of a face on basis of numerical values and corresponding system" was invented by Johan Aubert (Clichy, France), Gregoire Charraud (Clichy, France), Asiya Shakhmametova (Clichy, France), Louis Dupont De Dinechin (Clichy, France) and Emmanuel Malherbe (Clichy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for determining a skin colour of a region of interest of a user, comprises: -importing, from an image library (LIB) of a user computational device (APP), at least one image (IMk) comprising a representation of the region of interest of the...