公开(公告)号：US20210333185A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US17241576

申请日：2021-04-27

Applicant: Apeel Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Taylor Hayward ,  Allison Ferranti ,  Elaine Kirschke ,  Zoe Friedberg ,  Matthew Lee

IPC: G01N7/18 ,  G01N7/04 ,  G06Q10/08

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for assessing quality characteristics of food items based on analyzing volatiles outgassed by them. The quality characteristics can include presence of infection, ripeness stage, flavor, taste, and smell. Determining quality characteristics can be advantageous to make supply chain modifications that optimize on quality and reduce food-based waste. A tube having a sorbent material can be placed in an environment containing the food items. Volatiles outgassed by the food items can collect on the sorbent material. A computing system can receive the volatiles presence and concentration data and can apply a machine learning model to the data to determine quality characteristics of the food items. The model can be trained using human observations of quality characteristics, historic supply chain information, and processed volatiles data associated with other food items, wherein the other food items are a same type as the food items.

公开(公告)号：US20220312784A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-06

申请号：US17709239

申请日：2022-03-30

Applicant: Apeel Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Krishnan Chari ,  Justin Ryan ,  Matthew Lee ,  Taylor Person ,  Stephen Kaun ,  Gigi Lin

IPC: A23B7/16 ,  A23B7/154

Abstract: Presented herein are barrier film compositions that can be used to extend the shelf life of agricultural products. The barrier film compositions can comprise a monoglyceride, a fatty acid or a salt thereof, a biopolymer, and water and have a yield stress of at least 0.1 Pa.

公开(公告)号：US20210337817A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-04

申请号：US17272133

申请日：2019-09-04

Applicant: Apeel Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Lee ,  Gabriel Rodriguez ,  David Sandoval ,  Bardia Soltanzadeh ,  Eli Boesch ,  Erich Brodbeck ,  James Rogers ,  Savannah Braden ,  Chance Holland ,  Louis Perez ,  Charles Frazier ,  Carlos Hernandez ,  Stephen Kaun ,  Jessica Sexton

IPC: A23B7/16 ,  A23B7/154 ,  A23B7/157 ,  A23P20/18 ,  A23P20/17 ,  A01N3/02 ,  A01N3/00

Abstract: Compositions for forming protective coatings can include a first group of compounds, where each compound of the first group is a fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or fatty acid salt having a carbon chain length of at least 14 carbons. The compositions can optionally include a second group of compounds selected from fatty acids, fatty acid esters, fatty acid salts, and combinations thereof, wherein each compound of the second group has a carbon chain length from 7 to 13 carbons. At least some of the compounds of the first group can function as emulsifiers, allowing the composition to be dissolved, suspended, or dispersed in a solvent. At least some of the compounds of the second group can function as welling agents in order to improve the surface wetting of items to be coated when solutions, suspensions, or colloids that include the compositions are applied to the items.