ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,373, issued on June 23, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Device for inspecting a human body portion and associated method" was invented by Benjamin Askenazi (Saint-Ouen, France), Thierry Wasserman (Clichy, France), Emmanuel Malherbe (Clichy, France) and Thomas Gottschall (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This device for inspecting a human body portion (12) comprises: a frame (14), defining an observation window (26); an optical sensor, configured to capture a measurement luminous radiation (C) from the human body portion (12), and an illumination arrangement, configured to illuminate the human body portion (12), the illu...