ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,503, issued on May 12, was assigned to WastIQ B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).
"Food waste detection method and system" was invented by Bart Van Arnhem (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Olaf Egbert Van Der Veen (Utrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) for detecting food related products (2) before thrown away, the system comprising: one or more cameras (11); a display unit (12); a computing device (13) that is communicatively connected to the cameras and the display; and a scale (3) that is communicatively connected to the computing device, the scale holding a trash bin (31), wherein the cameras obtain an image or a vi...