ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,665, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTH CARE LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for obtaining color raw material for cosmetics" was invented by Se Heon Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Hye Jin Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Chang Young Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for obtaining a raw material which extracts a color raw material for cosmetics having a target color, wherein when a target color development value is input, raw material information is extracted using a genetic algorithm."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2021, under Application N...