ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,759, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MyFitnessPal Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"System and method for food categorization" was invented by Joohyun Kim (Austin, Texas), Chul Lee (Austin, Texas) and Bryan Levine (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a food categorization engine includes extracting features from each text description of a training food data set to generate a feature set. The feature set is analyzed to determine sets of food categorization features that correlate to one or more food categories, wherein the sets of food categorization features are defined by a plurality of category vectors. Indiv...