Patents by Inventor José Rolando Silva

José Rolando Silva 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).

  • Portable tool for determining meat quality
    Patent number: 8260005
    Abstract: A system, method and device for grading of meat such as bovine, porcine, sheep, horse or poultry meat among others. The device of this invention is a portable tool, which is approached toward a meat specimen to be analyzed and captures an image. The device then objectively relates the image to meat quality parameters by means of an image analyzing method. The device and method solve, in a practical, fast and satisfactory way, the problem of determining meat quality parameters such as texture, color, and contained intramuscular fat percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Universidad De Santiago De Chile
    Inventors: Gerda Roxana Tomic, Renato Salinas, José Rolando Silva, Fernando Osorio, Héctor Barrera
  • PORTABLE TOOL FOR DETERMINING MEAT QUALITY
    Publication number: 20080247603
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for grading of meat such as bovine, porcine, sheep, horse or poultry meat among others. The device of this invention corresponds to a portable tool, which is approached to meat specimens to be analyzed, and captures an image. The tool then objectively relates the image to meat quality parameters by means of an image analyzing method. The present invention solves in a practical, fast and satisfactory way the problem of determining meat quality parameters such as texture, color, and contained intramuscular fat percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Gerda Roxana Tomic, Renato Salinas, Jose Rolando Silva, Fernando Osorio, Hector Barrera