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US 2023/0066038 A1Published application
Methods and systems for assessing quality of a meat product
AssigneeMeq Probe Pty Ltd
InventorsAndrew GRANT, Remo CARBONE, Mark HUTCHINSON
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for assessing the quality of a meat product. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of assessing quality of a meat product, the method comprising receiving data representative of light emitted from the meat product upon application of incident light to the meat product, analysing the data to determine one or more parameters indicative of quality of the meat product, and assessing the quality of the meat product on the basis of the one or more parameters.
Claims21
-23. (canceled)
A probe device, comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one probe needle connected to the housing and extending therefrom to be inserted into a meat product;
- and
- an optical fibre configured to allow communication with a light source, a light measuring device, and the probe needle;
- wherein the probe needle is configured to:
- (i) apply incident laser light from the light source into the meat product;
- and
- (ii) receive autofluorescent light emitted from the meat product upon application of the incident laser light to the meat product and transmit it to the light measuring device.
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A method comprising:
- inserting at least one probe needle into a meat product to apply incident laser light to the meat product;
- and
- receiving autofluorescent light emitted from the meat product upon application of the incident laser light to the meat product, wherein the autofluorescent light is indicative of a measure of meat quality of the meat product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.