US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 27 for "Automatic main ingredient extraction from food recipe" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,530, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Automatic main ingredient extraction from food recipe" was invented by Wei Shun Bao (Shanghai), Weimin Xiao (Shanghai) and Yun Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system (100) for determining the main ingredients of a food recipe. The system comprises a first input (102) for receiving the identity and mass fraction (wri) of each ingredient (i) in the food recipe (r), and a second input (104) for receiving the identity of ingredients of each known recipe of a population of known recipes. The system further includes a cont...