Preservation system for nutritional substances

• US 10,219,531 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Original Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Inventors: Minvielle, Eugenio
• Primary Examiner(s): Alexander, Reginald
• Application Number:
  US13/485,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20130269542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,469 Days
• Field of Search: 99453-455, 99467-476, 99485-486, 738658
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 3/00 Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general, e.g. pasteurising, sterilising, specially adapted for foods or foodstuffs preserving foods or foodstuffs in association with packaging B65B55/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/02 Food

Abstract

Disclosed herein is preservation system for nutritional substances. The preservation system obtains information about the nutritional substance to be preserved, senses and measures the external environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the internal environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the state of the nutritional substance, and stores such information throughout the period of preservation. Using this accumulated information, the preservation system can measure, or estimate, changes in nutritional content (usually degradation) during the period of preservation. Additionally, the preservation system can use this information to dynamically modify the preservation system to minimize detrimental changes to the nutritional content of the nutritional substance, and in some cases actually improve the nutritional substance attributes.

Claims

1. A nutritional substance tracking system for tracking the nutritional, organoleptic and/or aesthetic values of a nutritional substance at creation of said nutritional substance, comprising:

adaptive preserver for adaptively preserving a nutritional substance, wherein the adaptive preserver and the nutritional substance are inside a container;

a sensor embedded in a plastic wrap containing the nutritional substance for sensing an attribute of the nutritional substance;

attribute storage for storing said attribute of the nutritional substance;

wherein the adaptive preserver preserves said nutritional substance in response to the sensed attribute of the nutritional substance so as to minimize degradation of said nutritional, organoleptic and/or aesthetic values of the nutritional substance by modifying the internal temperature within the container.

2. The preservation system of claim 1, wherein said attribute storage comprises a computer.

3. The preservation system of claim 1, wherein said attribute storage comprises a database.