Twelve USPTO provisional patents pending, covering the workflow-gated execution stack from production order through FSMA 204 traceability — grounded in two years of production use at Anu Sushi.
Twelve USPTO provisional patents pending, covering the full workflow-gated execution stack from production order through FSMA 204 traceability, grounded in two years of production use at Anu Sushi.
Shrink Manager's architecture rests on four mechanisms the filings describe. Three concern how the compliance record is created. The fourth turns that same capture into a production decision. Each is a specific operational pattern rather than a generic feature claim.
That distinction is the whole reason the architecture is built the way it is — and the reason the filings are worth more than the feature list they sit under.
Automation and machine intelligence are only ever as reliable as the operational data underneath them. A model reasoning over records that were reconstructed from memory is reasoning over someone's recollection. That is why the architecture matters more than any individual feature in it, and why the portfolio protects pieces of one architecture rather than twelve unrelated inventions.
The portfolio was assembled deliberately, and it protects pieces of a single architecture rather than a collection of separate inventions. The first wave established the foundational execution-control claims. The second extended coverage across adjacent workflows and operational patterns. The third anchored execution control to the highest-frequency events on a production floor. The fourth closed the loop between capture and the next production cycle.
Most software in the FSMA 204 market competes on feature lists. This portfolio is structured differently. Each filing covers a specific operational mechanism — a way the production floor actually has to behave — rather than a generic capability.
That is a deliberate choice about what the company is building toward. Provisional applications establish a priority date; they do not grant enforceable rights, and no claim here has been examined. What the filings do is stake the ground the architecture already occupies in production, ahead of the 2027 utility conversion window.
Shrink Manager has been running in live production for more than two years at Anu Sushi LLC, an affiliated operator, across 10 institutional food production sites, capturing more than one million production units as structured events each year. The portfolio reflects an architecture that already works at scale, not an idea about one.
The provisional filings establish priority dates. The 2027 statutory window is when those filings convert into utility applications.
If you're evaluating Shrink Manager — as an operator or a channel partner — the technology and patent portfolio is the part of the story most worth understanding directly.
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