ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,457, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Predicting food macronutrients from blood biomarkers" was invented by Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (College Station, Texas), Jack Bobak Mortazavi (Bryan, Texas), Zepeng Huo (College Station, Texas), Gerard L. Cote (College Station, Texas) and Nicolaas E. Deutz (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting a composition of a meal includes obtaining data relating to concentration of a biomarker of an individual that consumed the meal, analyzing the data to determine the composition of the meal, wherein the analyzi...