Ikan Holdings Assigned Patent

Ikan Holdings LLC, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,908,153) developed by Zsigmond, Fabio, Riverside, CT, Douer, Sion Elie, New York, NY, Yoshizawa, Geraldo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Wagner, Frederico, New York, NY, for “systems and methods for scanning information from storage area contents.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention is related to methods and systems for collected item information for stored items. In one embodiment, a networked food storage system comprises a first sensor configured to read information from item tags coupled to items, wherein the items are stored or intended to be stored in a storage unit. A data store is configured to store food preferences for at least a first user. Instructions, stored in computer readable memory, are configured to: cause a first user interface to be displayed to the first user via which the first user can request a meal suggestion, retrieve preference information for the first user from computer readable memory, retrieve information read from at least a first item tag, and provide a meal suggestion based at least in part on preference information for the first user and item tag information.”

The patent application was filed on May 24, 2017 (15/604,422).