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System and method for maintaining recipe ratios when measuring ingredients for culinary combinations

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  • US 9,772,217 B2
  • Filed: 08/20/2015
  • Issued: 09/26/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a computing device to assist a user in assembling a culinary combination according to a recipe, the recipe identifying one or more ingredients and one or more target amounts, each of the ingredients associated with one of the target amounts, the method comprising:

  • the computing device receiving real-time data from a scale;

    the computing device determining a tared weight based on the real-time data, wherein the tared weight represents weight added to the scale since taring;

    the computing device selecting a first ingredient as an active ingredient, wherein the first ingredient is one of the one or more ingredients, then selecting a target amount for the first ingredient as the target amount for the active ingredient, and then taring the tared weight;

    the computing device determining a measured amount of the active ingredient based on the tared weight;

    the computing device causing an electronic display to display real-time progress of the measured amount of the active ingredient; and

    the computing device de-selecting the first ingredient as the active ingredient and selecting a second ingredient as the active ingredient if the computing device determines the measured amount of the active ingredient is more than a lower threshold and less than an upper threshold followed by a period of inactivity wherein the second ingredient is one of the one or more ingredients, wherein the lower threshold is lower than the target amount for the active ingredient, wherein the upper threshold is greater than the target amount for the active ingredient.

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