US Patent Issued to Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance on March 24 for "Methods and systems for modifying hair characteristics in a digital image" (Uruguayan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,157, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for modifying hair characteristics in a digital image" was invented by Xin Chung (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Bruce V. Schwartz (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Giorgio Patrini (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Ajinkya Indulkar (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Ghassen Chaabouni (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Alberto Gaona (Bolingbrook, Ill.) and Juan Cardelino (Montevideo, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computer-implemented image processing method includes receiving a digital image including a face area of a person and a background area, receiving a...