ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,930, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Parametric eyebrow representation and enrollment from image input" was invented by Charles Thomas Hewitt (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Clemoes (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating eyebrow style representation is configurable to access a set of eyebrow models that each include a set of eyebrow strands and to generate a set of eyebrow style maps by processing the set of eyebrow strands of a respective eyebrow model using a strand encoder that is configured to reduce 3D eyebrow strand input t...