ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,824, issued on May 27.

"Apparatus and method for generating an ingredient chain" was invented by Kenneth Neumann (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an apparatus for generating an ingredient chain is presented. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor receive recipe data from a user. At least a processor is configured to extract a plurality of ingredients from recipe data. At least a processor is configured to classify, utilizing an ingredient classifier, a plurality of ingre...