System for managing the nutritional content for nutritional substances

• US 8,783,556 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2013
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• 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): VO, TUYEN KIM
• Application Number:
  US14/047,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20140038140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/383, 235/385, 235/451, 235/462.01, 235/492
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information encoding, marking, tracking, and transmission system for information related to nutritional substances, including nutritional content. Upon the creation of a nutritional substance, whether grown, raised, caught, collected or synthesized, information regarding the nutritional substance is accumulated, encoded and referenced to the particular nutritional substance. This information can be marked directly on the nutritional substance, but can instead be stored elsewhere, and referenced to the nutritional substance by means of a marking, unique identifier, a unique inherent property, unique genetic attribute, or an induced genetic attribute. A consumer of the nutritional substance can use this reference to retrieve the information regarding the creation of the particular nutritional substance.

Claims

1. A dynamic information identification system for nutritional substances, comprising:

an accumulation module which receives and optionally stores (1) encoded information relating to the origin of a nutritional substance, the encoded information being encoded on or as part of the nutritional substance at least electronically, molecularly, chemically, genetically, or a combination thereof, and (2) dynamic information relating to a change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance, wherein the dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content comprises at least two values correlated to the encoded information and obtained at two different conditions of the nutritional substance to determine Δ

N, where Δ

N is at least one of a change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance;

an encoding module which receives the encoded information and transforms the encoded information into a form for marking on the nutritional substance; and

a marking module which receives the information from the encoding module and generates a label to apply to the nutritional substance.

2. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1 further comprising:

a database module, and wherein at least one of the encoded information and dynamic information is stored in the database module.

3. The dynamic information identification system of claim 2, further comprising a reader for retrieving information from the database module, the reader comprised of any one or more of an optical reader, a mechanical reader, an electronic reader, a radio frequency reader, an electronic nose, or an assay to read the molecular tags.

4. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1 further comprising:

an identification module configured to create unique identification information for a nutritional substance.

5. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1 further comprising:

a reader module configured to retrieve the encoded information.

6. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein the accumulation, encoding and marking modules are each independently comprised of any one or more of a computer, a database, the cloud or a combination thereof.

7. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, further comprising a unique information identifier, wherein the unique information identifier is used to relate the origin information with dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance stored in the accumulation module.

8. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein

the information relating to the origin is encoded on or as part of the nutritional substance in any one or more of a mechanical tag, an electronic tag, a molecular tag, a chemical tag or a combination thereof;

and

the encoded information is indicative of the origin of the nutritional substance; and

the encoded information is unique to a plurality of nutritional substances.

9. The dynamic information identification system of claim 8, wherein the mechanical tag is any one or more of a label, a barcode, a QR code or a combination thereof.

10. The dynamic information identification system of claim 8, wherein the electronic tag is a radio frequency identification tag.

11. The dynamic information identification system of claim 8, wherein the molecular tag is any one or more of a genetic markers, protein expression profile, microorganism biome, types and amounts of micronutrients, nanotechnology tags, ratios of carbon isotopes, gasses, aromas or a combination thereof.

12. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein the origin information is related to any one or more of a specific farm, fishery, ranch, city, state, zip code, latitude and longitudinal positions or a combination thereof.

13. A dynamic information identification system for nutritional substances, comprising:

an accumulation module which receives encoded information relating to the origin of a nutritional substance, the encoded information being encoded on or as part of the nutritional substance at least electronically, molecularly, chemically, genetically, or a combination thereof; and

dynamic information relating to a change in nutritional content of the nutritional substance, wherein the dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content comprises at least two values correlated to the encoded. information and obtained at two different conditions of the nutritional substance to determine Δ

N, where Δ

N is at least one of a change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance;

a database module, and wherein at least one of the encoded information and dynamic information is stored in the database module, including Δ

N values relating to the change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance; and

an identification module configured to create unique identification information for a nutritional substance, wherein the unique information identifier is used to relate the origin information with dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance.