US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for tracking food intake behaviors and providing relevant feedback" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,455, issued on July 29, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for tracking food intake behaviors and providing relevant feedback" was invented by Katelijn Vleugels (Austin, Texas) and Ronald Marianetti II (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device monitors and tracks food intake events and details. A processor, appropriately programmed, controls aspects of the sensing device to capture data, store data, analyze data and provide suitable feedback related to food intake. More generally, the methods might include detecting, identifying, analyzing, quantifying, tracking,...