US Patent Issued to Apeel Technology on Jan. 20 for "Ultraviolet light and machine learning-based assessment of food item quality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,709, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apeel Technology Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Ultraviolet light and machine learning-based assessment of food item quality" was invented by Benjamin Gordon (Goleta, Calif.), Ohad Michel (Goleta, Calif.), Matthew Kahlscheuer (Goleta, Calif.), Benjamin Flores (Goleta, Calif.), Charles Frazier (Goleta, Calif.) and Louis Perez (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box aro...