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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2012
Jeffrey W. Dlott, Watsonville, CA (US);
Harry W. Rosenberg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Clifford P. Ohmart, Davis, CA (US);
Rebecca Connolly, Watsonville, CA (US);
Jeffrey W. Dlott, Watsonville, CA (US);
Harry W. Rosenberg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Clifford P. Ohmart, Davis, CA (US);
Rebecca Connolly, Watsonville, CA (US);
SureHarvest, Inc., Soquel, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatus for tracking and reporting the social impact of food products. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a hand-held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation. The hand-held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, information that is associated with the product, the information including social impact information that is associated with the production of the food product; and display at least some of the received social impact information on the display in human readable form.