US Patent Issued to Aristavue on April 21 for "School food and beverage recognition and processing system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,962, issued on April 21, was assigned to Aristavue Inc. (Issaquah, Wash.).

"School food and beverage recognition and processing system" was invented by David Belford (Albany, Minn.) and Jonathan Bondhus (Buffalo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A school food and beverage recognition and processing system includes a self-checkout system that attaches to a school meal line. The self-checkout system uses multiple cameras to obtain images of a student for identification and images of a meal, identify contents of the meal, and determine whether the meal qualifies for reimbursement through a health program or agency. In addition to d...