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US 9,436,170 B2Granted
Appliances with weight sensors for nutritional substances
OwnerEugenio Minvielleinventor
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Abstract
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
Claims19
A system for nutritional substances comprising:
- a reader for detecting a dynamic information identifier provided with a nutritional substance;
- a database with conditioning protocols referenced to the dynamic information identifier and related to a ΔN of the nutritional substance;
- a weight measurement sensor for detecting the weight of the nutritional substance wherein the weight measurement sensor is incorporated in an electronic scale;
- a controller configured to determine prospective nutritional values based on the ΔN of the nutritional substance and data output by the weight measurement sensor;
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- a display for outputting the prospective nutritional values of the substance based on the ΔN determined by the controller.
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A system for utilizing nutritional information relating to nutritional substances comprising:
- an input panel configured to receive a consumer's input regarding a nutritional substance;
- a database with conditioning protocols referenced to known nutritional substances and ΔN information of the known nutritional substances;
- a weight measurement sensor for detecting the weight of the nutritional substance wherein the weight measurement sensor is incorporated in an electronic scale;
- a controller configured to determine prospective nutritional values based on the ΔN of the nutritional substance and data output by the weight measurement sensor;
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- a display for outputting prospective nutritional values of the nutritional substance based on the ΔN determined by the controller.
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A method for determining nutritional information related to a nutritional substance, the method comprising:
- determining a weight of a nutritional substance using an electronic scale;
- accessing data from a database of conditioning protocols referenced to known nutritional substances;
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- determining a prospective ΔN of the nutritional substance based on the data from the database of conditioning protocols referenced to known nutritional substances and the weight of the nutritional substance.
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A system for utilizing nutritional information relating to nutritional substances comprising:
- a database with conditioning protocols referenced to known nutritional substances and ΔN information of the known nutritional substances based on the conditioning protocols;
- a sensor for outputting data representing a weight of a nutritional substance, wherein the sensor is an optical sensor;
- a controller configured to determine prospective nutritional values based on the ΔN of the nutritional substance and the weight of the nutritional substance;
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- a display for outputting the prospective nutritional values of the nutritional substance based on the ΔN determined by the controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.