Patents by Inventor Margaret-Ann Reed

Margaret-Ann Reed 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: 10083475
    Abstract: A nutritional management system. The system comprises a processor, a memory, a first data store comprising a list of products, universal product codes associated with the products, and nutritional information associated with the products, a second data store comprising purchase histories linked to a plurality of loyalty card users, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application reads a purchase history of a loyalty card user over a most recent predefined time period from the second data store, analyzes a most recent predefined time period of the purchase history of the loyalty card user based on objective nutritional guidelines to identify a predefined number of most unhealthy purchased items, searches the first data store to find substitutes for the unhealthy purchased items, transmits the substitutes, receives a selection of one or more of the substitutes, and promotes generating a shopping list comprising selected substitutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Safeway Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret-Ann Reed, John Calvert, Steve Moylan
  • Patent number: 9959561
    Abstract: A nutritional management system which comprises a processor, a memory, a first data store comprising a list of products, universal product codes associated with the products, and nutritional information associated with the products, a second data store comprising a physiological information profile for each of a plurality of different loyalty card users, an application stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Safeway Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret-Ann Reed, John Calvert, Steve Moylan