MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621040890 A) filed by Dr. Vishwanath Karad Mit World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, on March 31, for 'portable device and method for determining nutritional composition of food by volatile organic compound analysis.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Ratnadip R Joshi; and Anand Ubhayaker.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed is a portable device and method for determining nutritional composition of food by volatile organic compound analysis. Prior art devices and methods are limited to stationary installations or laboratory settings and are incapable of quantitative macronutrient determination at the location of a food sample. The portable food analysis device (100) comprising a handheld housing (110) enclosing a self-contained power source (112), a headspace sampling inlet (120), a VOC conditioning module (130) comprising at least one molecular sieve element (134), a sensor array (140) comprising chemical sensors (142) having overlapping but non-identical selectivities toward functional groups, a signal acquisition circuit (150), a processing unit (160) storing a calibration database (166) and executable instructions (168), and a user interface (170). The processing unit (160) extracts feature vectors from digitized multi-dimensional response data and estimates macronutrient composition comprising carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. A corresponding method is also provided."
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