ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,913, issued on May 12, was assigned to 7262591 Canada Ltd. (Ottawa).
"On-line system and method for searching recipes for meal planning" was invented by Chris Knight (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a system and method to plan preparation of a meal that may include more than one dish. Online recipes are obtained from a database based on criteria set by the user. Recipes are analyzed for time and effort requirements at each step. If a meal includes more than one dish, a merge of the timelines is performed to determine if it is feasible to prepare all dishes concurrently. Suppliers that can supply all ingredi...