Method and System for Monitoring Food Products
AssigneeDayton-Phoenix Group, Inc.
InventorMichael W. Ayette
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Abstract
A system for monitoring items, in particular food products, includes a food storage cabinet having an interior with a plurality of food storage compartments; a plurality of food storage containers shaped to fit within the compartments, each of the containers having machine-readable indicia associated therewith indicative of an aspect of the food product therein; a plurality of sensors, each sensor associated with a different one of the food storage compartments to read the machine-readable indicia of the food storage container in the associated food storage compartment; and a display that receives and displays data from the first plurality of sensors indicative of the aspects of the food products in the food storage containers.
Claims20
A system for monitoring food products, the system comprising:
- a first food storage cabinet having an interior with a plurality of food storage compartments;
- a plurality of food storage containers shaped to fit within the compartments, each of the food storage containers having machine-readable indicia associated therewith indicative of an aspect of the food product therein, the aspect selected from one or more of a type of the food product, a weight of the food product, a location of packing the food product in the food storage container, a date of packing the food product in the food storage container, and an expiration date of the food product in the food storage container;
- a first plurality of sensors, each sensor of the first plurality of sensors associated with a different one of the food storage compartments to read the machine-readable indicia of one of the plurality of food storage containers in the associated one of the food storage compartments;
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- a display that receives and displays data from the first plurality of sensors indicative of the aspects of the food products.
A system for monitoring items, the system comprising:
- a receptacle having an interior with a plurality of compartments;
- a plurality of containers shaped to fit within the compartments, each of the containers having machine-readable indicia associated therewith indicative of an aspect of the item therein, the aspect selected from one or more of a type of the product, a weight of the item, a location of packing the item in the container, a date of packing the item in the container, and an expiration date of the item;
- a plurality of sensors, each sensor of the plurality of sensors associated with a different one of the compartments to read the machine-readable indicia of one of the plurality of containers in the associated one of the compartments;
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- a display that receives and displays data from the plurality of sensors indicative of the aspects of the items.
A food processing facility, the facility comprising:
- a food preparation line that prepares food items and loads the food items into a plurality of food storage containers;
- a labeler that affixes machine-readable indicia to each of the plurality of food storage compartments, the machine-readable indicia containing information of the food items in the associated one of the food storage containers;
- a food storage cabinet having a plurality of food storage compartments that receive the food storage containers from the labeler;
- a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors associated with a different one of the food storage compartments to read from one of the machine-readable indicia of one of the plurality of food storage containers an associated one of the food storage compartments;
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- a display that displays an aspect of the food items in the food storage containers in the food storage compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.