US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "User feedback during food tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,924, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User feedback during food tracking" was invented by Anselm Grundhoefer (Campbell, Calif.), Mohamed Selim Ben Himane (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shubham Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein use user input received approximately around the time of food consumption to confirm and/or revise food predictions, e.g., regarding type of food, volume, etc. One or more food characteristics determinations may be associated with uncertainty. User input is implicitly or explicitly requested to resolve at least some of ...