Patent ID: 9528972
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: A23P,A47J,G01N,G05B,G06F,G09B,G16H,Y02A

Claim Text:
1. A method for conditioning a nutritional substance, the method comprising: determining, using a control system comprising one or more processors, an identity of the nutritional substance based on information received regarding the nutritional substance output from a camera; receiving, at an input panel, consumer input regarding preferences for conditioning of the nutritional substance; accessing, using the control system, data relating to conditioning protocols from a database referenced to known nutritional substances wherein the conditioning protocols each comprise a sequence of steps for conditioning a referenced one of the known nutritional substances, and wherein each of the steps comprise different conditioning parameters; and adapting, using the control system, a conditioning sequence for the nutritional substance based on at least a subset of the accessed data relating to conditioning protocols referenced to the nutritional substance and the consumer input; and executing the conditioning sequence in a conditioner in communication with the control system.