ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,312, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HME Hospitality & Specialty Communications Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Image-based kitchen tracking system with order accuracy management using sequence detection association" was invented by Alex Litzenberger (Pittsburgh), Joshua Abrams (Pittsburgh), Prashasti Sar (Pittsburgh), Shayeree Sarkar (Pittsburgh), Qiong Hu (Pittsburgh) and Evan DeSantola (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, methods, systems, computer-readable storage medium. A method includes receiving first image data comprising one or more image f...