ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,789, issued on March 18.
"System and method for communication of food attributes" was invented by John George Sotos (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a system and method for communicating information about attributes of a food. Common attributes of a food include its nutritional content (e.g. its protein content, salt content, vitamin B12 content, etc.), but there are many others. Communication of information to a human may occur when the human sees a facial glyph, the facial glyph representing information about the food's attributes. The specification teaches embodiments of the invention that ...