ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,303, issued on June 17, was assigned to Climax Foods Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).
"System and method for sensory characterization" was invented by Oliver Zahn (Berkeley, Calif.), Karthik Sekar (Berkeley, Calif.) and Richard Gerkin (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a method for sensory characterization can include: determining attributes for a sample, collecting sensory data for the sample, determining a sensory characterization model, training the sensory characterization model based on the attributes and the sensory data, determining attributes for a test sample, and predicting a sensory characterization for ...