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US 9,460,633 B2Granted
Conditioner with 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.
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A dynamic conditioning system for nutritional substances comprising:
- a reader configured to detect a dynamic information identifier provided with a nutritional sub stance;
- a database with information referenced to the dynamic information identifier and including various conditioning protocols the nutritional substance, wherein the conditioning protocols each comprise a sequence of steps for conditioning the nutritional substance;
- a sensor configured to detect an attribute of the nutritional substance and output sensor data related to the attribute;
- a controller configured to adapt operation of the conditioning system responsive to at least one of the conditioning protocols for the nutritional substance and further configured to advance the conditioning protocol between steps based on the sensor data.
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A dynamic conditioning system for conditioning nutritional substances comprising:
- an input panel configured to receive information regarding a nutritional substance;
- a sensor for sensing a physical attribute of the nutritional substance;
- a library comprising datasets referenced to known nutritional substances;
- a controller for comparing the sensed physical attribute with the datasets to determine at least one matching dataset and implementing a conditioning sequence for conditioning the nutritional substance based on the matching dataset, wherein the conditioning sequences comprises a sequence of steps for conditioning the nutritional substance, and the controller is configured to advance the conditioning protocol between steps based on data output from the sensor.
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A method for conditioning a nutritional substance, the method comprising:
- sensing an attribute of a nutritional substance;
- accessing data relating to conditioning protocols from a database referenced to known nutritional substances;
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- adapting a conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance based on at least a subset of the accessed data relating to conditioning protocols for the nutritional substance and the sensed attribute of the nutritional substance, and wherein the conditioning protocol is additionally adapted based on ΔN information.
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