System and method for designing food and beverage flavor experiences

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods fail to effectively accommodate individual flavor preferences in food and beverage creation, as they lack advanced technologies to analyze and integrate chemical and molecular flavor data, making it difficult for chefs to tailor experiences that cater to diverse tastes.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that analyze user experience data and flavor profiles to determine flavoring information and adjustments, using AI and culinary knowledge to create personalized flavor experiences through a dispenser device and analytic engine, synchronizing flavor information for optimized culinary experiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If advanced technologies are used to analyze and integrate chemical and molecular flavor data, then the precision and personalization of flavor experiences are improved, but the device complexity and accessibility to home chefs are worsened

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflavor analysis precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an analytic engine as an intermediary component that bridges the gap between complex chemical analysis and simple user interaction. This engine automatically processes flavor data, user preferences, and recipe information, translating complex molecular data into actionable flavor recommendations without requiring users to understand the underlying chemistry

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing flavor data, user preferences, and recipe compositions without requiring manual intervention from chefs. The analytic engine autonomously generates flavor adjustments and synchronizes them with dispenser devices, eliminating the need for users to manually process complex chemical information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If systems aggregate personal preference data from various individuals, then the adaptability and responsiveness of flavor experiences are improved, but the loss of time for data collection and processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflavor preference adaptabilityVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-collecting and storing user preference data, flavor profile information, and recipe data in databases before actual flavor creation is needed. This allows the analytic engine to quickly retrieve and process relevant information during flavor generation, significantly reducing real-time processing delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where user responses to flavor experiences are continuously collected and fed back into the preference database. This ongoing feedback mechanism refines and updates user profiles over time, improving adaptability while distributing data collection across multiple interactions rather than requiring intensive single-session processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20230215293A1System and method for designing food and beverage flavor experiences
Publication Date: 2023.07.06 SPICERR LTD
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AI summary

A system and method for designing food and beverage flavor experiences are provided. The method includes analyzing collected user experience data and collected flavor profile and recipe data; determining flavoring information and flavoring adjustments based on the analysis; and synchronizing the determined flavoring information and flavoring adjustments.