ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,837, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MyFitnessPal Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Food knowledge graph for a health tracking system" was invented by Hesamoddin Salehian (Austin, Texas), Poojit Sharma (Austin, Texas), Kent Frazier (Austin, Texas), Surender Reddy Yerva (Austin, Texas), Iman Barjasteh (Austin, Texas) and Layla Martin (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a health tracking system is disclosed. The method comprises: storing a food knowledge graph having a plurality of labels describing consumable items and a plurality of relationships between pairs of labels, some of the labels being generic name...