US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 27 for "Tracking diet and nutrition using wearable biological internet-of-things" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,788, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tracking diet and nutrition using wearable biological internet-of-things" was invented by Peter Tseng (Oakland, Calif.), Mohammad Al Faruque (Oakland, Calif.) and Fadi Kurdahi (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking diet and nutrition includes an oral module configured to be affixed within a mouth of a user and including a set of salivary sensors responsive to a level of at least one nutrient. The system also includes a set of eating event sensors responsive to an eating event. The set of eating event ...