Software Based Analysis of Food Cooling Technology

Analysis of patent databases is becoming everyday practice since the developers of new products and services need to get the contemporary trends on defined topics of interest. In addition, companies analyze patent data and use collected information for defining future research and development plans and market strategies. As food storage device is one of the most arguable topics in the last decade, this paper shows qualitative and quantitative analysis of patent portfolio created on this topic using publicly available patent search engines. Conducted patent analytics can be used by all interested parties involved in different phases of food product life cycle.