US Patent Issued to Diet ID on Aug. 5 for "Diet mapping processes and systems to optimize diet quality and/or minimize environmental impact" (Maryland, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,987, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Diet ID Inc. (Detroit).

"Diet mapping processes and systems to optimize diet quality and/or minimize environmental impact" was invented by David L. Katz (Hamden, Conn.) and Lauren Q. Rhee (Fulton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer infrastructure operable to implement: a) a diet identification tool configured to identify qualities of a diet of a user on a graphical user interface based on composite images selected by the user; and a composite image tool, wherein the composite image tool is populated with a library of composite images, wherein each composite image comprises an inventory...