ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,147, issued on April 29, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for generating meal recommendations" was invented by Samuel Yip (East Brunswick, N.J.), Mario Alejandro Garcia (Arlington, Va.) and Roberto Irizarry (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may include a method for generating meal recommendations by receiving first data and user input data. The system may generate a food profile and estimate of ingredients based on the first data and the user input data. The system may generate, based on the estimate of ingredients, one or more cooking instructions or an outpu...