ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,092, issued on July 1, was assigned to Frito-Lay North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Devices, systems, and methods for virtual bulk density sensing" was invented by Sean Eichenlaub (McKinney, Texas) and Kevin Kaichu Lin (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for real-time food production are disclosed. Extrusion can include including evaluating and controlling one or more production devices to produce desirable food products. Evaluation can be performed by an evaluation system including a convolutional neural network to determine a bulk density value. Control can be performed by a machine learning m...