Patents by Inventor Benjamin Flores

Benjamin Flores has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12530709
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box around each of the food items in the image data, determining, for each food item, an infection presence metric by applying a model to the bounding box, the model being trained using image training data of other food items under UV light, the image training data being annotated based on previous identifications of a first portion of the other food items having infection features and a second portion having healthy quality features, and determining, based on a determination that the infection presence metric for each of the food items indicates presence of an infection, an infection coverage metric for the food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Apeel Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Gordon, Ohad Michel, Matthew Kahlscheuer, Benjamin Flores, Charles Frazier, Louis Perez
  • Publication number: 20240062265
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box around each of the food items in the image data, determining, for each food item, an infection presence metric by applying a model to the bounding box, the model being trained using image training data of other food items under UV light, the image training data being annotated based on previous identifications of a first portion of the other food items having infection features and a second portion having healthy quality features, and determining, based on a determination that the infection presence metric for each of the food items indicates presence of an infection, an infection coverage metric for the food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Gordon, Ohad Michel, Matthew Kahlscheuer, Benjamin Flores, Charles Frazier, Louis Perez
  • Patent number: 11847681
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box around each of the food items in the image data, determining, for each food item, an infection presence metric by applying a model to the bounding box, the model being trained using image training data of other food items under UV light, the image training data being annotated based on previous identifications of a first portion of the other food items having infection features and a second portion having healthy quality features, and determining, based on a determination that the infection presence metric for each of the food items indicates presence of an infection, an infection coverage metric for the food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apeel Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Gordon, Ohad Michel, Matthew Kahlscheuer, Benjamin Flores, Charles Frazier, Louis Perez
  • Publication number: 20230325899
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box around each of the food items in the image data, determining, for each food item, an infection presence metric by applying a model to the bounding box, the model being trained using image training data of other food items under UV light, the image training data being annotated based on previous identifications of a first portion of the other food items having infection features and a second portion having healthy quality features, and determining, based on a determination that the infection presence metric for each of the food items indicates presence of an infection, an infection coverage metric for the food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Gordon, Ohad Michel, Matthew Kahlscheuer, Benjamin Flores, Charles Frazier, Louis Perez