ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,537, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Shiseido Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for virtual facial makeup removal and simulation, fast facial detection and landmark tracking, reduction in input video lag and shaking, and method for recommending makeup" was invented by Yun Fu (Brookline, Mass.), Shuyang Wang (Medford, Mass.), Sumin Lee (Rochester, N.Y.), Songyao Jiang (Evertt, Mass.), Bin Sun (Boston), Haiyi Mao (Boston) and Kai Ho Edgar Cheung (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for virtual facial makeup simulation through virtual makeup removal and virtual ma...