Nutritional substance label system for adaptive conditioning

• US 10,207,859 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2017
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• 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): Le, Thien M
• Application Number:
  US15/658,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20170320655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 235492
• CPC Class Codes: A23P 10/00 Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 61/20 for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents adding unpacking elements B65B61/18
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 61/26 for marking or coding completed packages
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/28 Cards, coupons, or drinking straws B65D5/4212, B65D23/14, B65D25/205, B65D33/004, B65D51/245, B65D75/54 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/00 Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials B65D71/00, B65D83/00 take precedence; hand implements or travelling equipment A45C; cosmetic or toiletry equipment A45D; packages for surgical knives, scalpels or blades therefor A61B17/3215; containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes A61J1/00; paint cans B44D3/12; oil cans F16N3/04; containers for carrying small arms F41C33/06; packaging of ammunition or explosive charges F42B39/00; containers for record carriers, specially adapted for cooperation with the recording or reproducing apparatus G11B23/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

Claims

1. A nutritional substance product label system, said system comprising:

an information storage means providing dynamic reference to one or more adaptive conditioning sequences; and

a transformer for transforming a nutritional substance using a recipe comprising a set of settings, a transforming nutritional or organoleptic value associated with the recipe; and

a conditioner for conditioning the nutritional substance after transforming the nutritional substance using an adaptive conditioning sequence, the adaptive conditioning sequence responsive to one or more attribute values sensed during conditioning and the transforming nutritional or organoleptic value, for adaptively altering the conditioning to preserve nutritional or organoleptic values of the nutritional substance being conditioned.

2. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 1 wherein said information storage means further comprises an RFID tag, a magnetically readable label, or an optically readable label containing the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

3. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 1 wherein said information storage means further comprises an RFID tag, a magnetically readable label, or an optically readable label containing a unique identifier referenced to a database containing the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

4. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 1 wherein consumer input enables selection of a particular adaptive conditioning sequence from the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

5. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 1 wherein said information storage means further comprises the nutritional or organoleptic value associated with each of the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

6. A nutritional substance product label system, said system comprising:

an information storage means providing dynamic reference to one or more adaptive conditioning sequences; and

a transformer for transforming a nutritional substance using a recipe comprising a set of settings a transforming nutritional or organoleptic values associated with the recipe being determined by the transformer through calculation using a nutritional or organoleptic value of the transformed nutritional substance following transformation; and

an adaptive conditioning sequence executable by conditioners to condition the nutritional substance after transforming the nutritional substance, the adaptive conditioning sequence responsive to one or more attribute values sensed during conditioning and the transforming nutritional or organoleptic value, for adaptively altering the conditioning to preserve nutritional or organoleptic values of the nutritional substance being conditioned.

7. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 6 wherein said information storage means further comprises an RFID tag, a magnetically readable label, or an optically readable label containing the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

8. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 6 wherein said information storage means further comprises an RFID tag, a magnetically readable label, or an optically readable label containing a unique identifier referenced to a database containing the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

9. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 6 wherein consumer input enables selection of a particular adaptive conditioning sequence from the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.

10. A nutritional substance product label system according to claim 6 wherein said information storage means further comprises the target nutritional or organoleptic value associated with each of the one or more adaptive conditioning sequences.