ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,272, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.).
"Methods and systems for transferring hair characteristics from a reference image to 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 first subject a...