US Patent Issued to MyFitnessPal on June 23 for "Health tracking system with meal goals" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,058, issued on June 23, was assigned to MyFitnessPal Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Health tracking system with meal goals" was invented by Chul Lee (Austin, Texas) and Angela Hsiao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for deriving a dietary plan. In one embodiment, the method comprises enabling a user to enter a long-term dietary goal at a health tracking device; accessing user profile information relating to the user; generating at least one value representative of a short-term dietary goal for the user based at least in part on the long-term dietary goal and the user profile information; dividing the at leas...