ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,300, issued on July 14, was assigned to TUTSHO LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Food data access and delivery system" was invented by Michele K. Herman (Bellevue, Wash.), Deepak Kamlani (Alamo, Calif.), David S. Montague (Bellevue, Wash.) and Rohan Phillips (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system for accessing food data and tracking a user's food intake includes a nutrition information system and a mobile PDA or smartphone-based tag reading system. The two systems are configured to communication. The mobile tag reading system includes a tag capture device for reading the nutritional tag, and a decoder for decoding th...