US Patent Issued to General Mills on May 20 for "Customized identification of ingredients in a storage system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,074, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Customized identification of ingredients in a storage system" was invented by Wenyi Wang (Blaine, Minn.) and Mark E. Arlinghaus (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use with an ingredient storage system having a plurality of receptacles configured to store ingredients can include obtaining food-selection data indicating a meal. The method can include obtaining ingredient data indicating a set of ingredients for the meal. The method can include obtaining synchronization data indicating a cooking time for each ingredient of the set of ingredie...