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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2019
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (US);
Deltatrak, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ismail Uysal, Lakeland, FL (US);
Frederick Louis Wu, Danville, CA (US);
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (US);
DeltaTrak, Inc., Pleasanton, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for assessing a supply chain for a perishable product. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a quality code for a perishable product which encodes a plurality of the most important performance metrics of the cold chain for the perishable product, including food quality oriented measures such as cut-to-cool time, transportation quality and accumulated shelf-life loss, and food safety oriented measures such as most probable number range for microorganism growth into a compact, modular and simple to read format.