US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 13 for "Food management system, and refrigerator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,417, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Food management system, and refrigerator" was invented by Shinichi Horii (Shiga, Japan), Zarina Rafii (Nara, Japan), Gantetsu Matsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Taku Kariyazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a food management system 1000 that can accurately detect a food item contained in a refrigerator 1. The food management system 1000 configured to manage a food item contained in the refrigerator 1 includes a refrigerator compartment camera 21 provided at an upper part of the refrigerato...