ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,972, issued on March 18, was assigned to SeekingSimple Inc. (Eagle, Idaho).

"Generating recommendations based on nutritional prescriptions" was invented by Clay H Young (McCall, Idaho) and Mark Eisner (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based application generates food product recommendations in support of medical nutritional therapy. The recommendations are calculated based on at least one patient-specific nutritional prescription and extended ingredient data that identifies food product ingredients or nutritional calculations that do not appear on packaging labels. The patient-specific nutritional prescriptio...