US 2024/0403810 A1 · METHOD AND FACILITY FOR PRODUCING DRIED-RECOVERED HOUSEHOLD FOOD

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide various systems and methods for producing dried-recovered household food (DRHF) from organic matter that has been preprocessed by an organic matter processing apparatus (OMPA). The OMPA can convert organic inputs into a ground and selectively dried product, referred to herein as OMPA output. A DRHF processing facility can convert OMPA output, received from many different households, into DRHF. The DRHF facility conducts extensive data acquisition and analysis of OMPA output and DRHF at many different stations existing within the DRHF processing facility. A chain of custody, starting with receipt of OMPA output from households throughout a conversion process in which the OMPA output is converted to DRHF is maintained to ensure that the production of DRHF and the DRHF itself satisfies requirements for food safety and handling, thereby allowing the DRHF to be used as feed or as a feed ingredient.

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Dependent claims

A system for processing a mailer comprising a tracking number and organic matter processing apparatus (OMPA) output produced by an OMPA, the system comprising:

a dried recovered household food (DRHF) processing facility comprising a primary processing line and an alternative processing line;
and
a front end device comprising:
a user interface for processing user input;
a communications interface for receiving data from a plurality of peripheral devices;
and
a processor operative to:
process tracking data obtained by a scan of the tracking number by a first peripheral device;
identify a customer account based on the tracking data, wherein the customer account is associated with a customer account database comprising OMPA data and DRHF data;
process user input received via the user interface and data received from the plurality of peripheral devices as part of an evaluation of the OMPA output contained therein;
populate a data set based on the evaluation, wherein the data set comprises observed characteristics of the OMPA output contained in the mailer;
and
add the data set to the DRHF data associated with the customer account.

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A method for processing a mailer comprising a tracking number and organic matter processing apparatus (OMPA) output produced by an OMPA, the method implemented in a front end device that receives user input from an operator and data from a plurality of peripheral devices operating in a processing facility operative to convert OMPA output to dried recovered household food (DRHF), the method comprising:

processing tracking data obtained by a scan of the tracking number by a first peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices;
populating a data set tied to an entry of the tracking number based on an inspection of the OMPA output contained in the mailer, wherein the data set is populated with at least one of user inputs and data received from the plurality of peripherals, and wherein the data set comprises the tracking number, mass value obtained from a second peripheral device of the plurality of devices, a batch number, status of whether contaminants are present, and status of whether OMPA output is accepted;
and
uploading the data set to a back end server comprising a database for storing data sets tied to each mailer processed by the front end device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and facility for producing dried-recovered household food

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