ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,531, issued on April 15, was assigned to Winnow Solutions Ltd. (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

"Method and system for classifying food items" was invented by Marc Zornes (London), Kevin Duffy (London), David Woosnam (London), Peter Leonard Krebs (Iowa City, Iowa), Minh-Tri Pham (London), Phong Vo (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Mark Haynes (Wandsworth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for classifying food items. The method includes the steps of: capturing one or more sensor data relating to a food item event; and classifying the food item, at least in part, automatically using a mo...