US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Restaurant menu customization using computer vision and natural language processing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,213, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Restaurant menu customization using computer vision and natural language processing" was invented by Tyler Waite (Lake Washington, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for customizing a restaurant menu. Dietary restrictions of a user are received. Text is extracted from a digital version of a menu of a restaurant. Ingredient(s) of a first menu item are identified within the extracted text. Using natural language processing (NLP), it is determined that the ingredient(s) include at least one ingredient that does not co...