Patent ID: 11874266
Assignee: nan
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
attaching a cap to a container to hermetically seal the container;
obtaining a consumable product in the hermetically sealed container and prior to sale to a consumer;
affixing directly to an outer surface of the hermetically sealed container a flexible substrate including a laser-detector pair in the flexible substrate to pass laser light through the hermetically sealed container to reflect from a reflector affixed to the outer surface of the hermetically sealed container opposite the laser-detector pair to non-invasively sense parameters of the consumable product; and
electrically coupling the cap to the flexible substrate, the cap including a processor and a memory to monitor, analyze and store in the memory data on the parameters of the consumable product; and
providing to the consumer an interrogator to communicate with the cap to access the data on parameters of the consumable product,
wherein the flexible substrate forms part of packaging of said consumable product and is affixed to the hermetically sealed container before sale to a consumer.