Patents Assigned to COLA
  • Patent number: 10174158
    Abstract: Methods or preparing para-xylene from biomass by carrying out a Diels-Alder cycloaddition at controlled temperatures and activity ratios. Methods of preparing bio-terephthalic acid and bio-poly(ethylene terephthalate (bio-PET) are also disclosed, as well as products formed from bio-PET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Indra Prakash, Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Robert M. Kriegel, Xiaoyan Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 10167182
    Abstract: A volume of fluid may be received at the air chamber from a fluid source and dispensed to a nozzle. The fluid source may be in fluid communication with the air chamber. The flow may be reversed to draw the fluid to the air chamber and purge air within the air chamber or the fluid to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: William J. Moore, Robert D. Hughes, IV
  • Patent number: 10156395
    Abstract: The present application provides a cooler. The cooler may include an outer frame, a product space within the outer frame, and a number of shelf assemblies positioned within the product space. The shelf assemblies may include an evaporator and a phase change material therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Jurgen Roekens, Roberto Horn Pereira, Abram C. Knip, Jacobus P. M. Dessing
  • Patent number: 10158721
    Abstract: Facilitating an individualized interaction between a mobile computing device and an electronic device is provided. A mobile computing device may be utilized to receive an identity of the electronic device. The identity of the electronic device and other data may then be sent from the mobile computing device to a server. An individualized interaction may then be initiated via a previously established communication session between the server and the electronic device. The individualized interaction initiated in response to a determination that the mobile computing device is proximate to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventor: Andrew Buchanan Jarnagin, III
  • Publication number: 20180344052
    Abstract: A beverage dispenser for dispensing one or more products is disclosed. The beverage dispenser may include a housing having a dispensing port, a shaft disposed within the housing, and a tray rotatably attached to the shaft. The tray may be tilted towards the dispensing port relative to the shaft. The tray may rotate the one or more products disposed thereon to the dispensing port via gravity after one of the one or more products disposed on the tray is dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Coca-Cola Company
    Inventor: Vinayak Godbole
  • Publication number: 20180346662
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to polymers and copolymers, and systems and methods for processing the same. Advantageously, the polymers and copolymers of the present invention have undergone processing in a falling strand devolatilizer and rotary disk finisher such that a low-cost, low-energy, and high-production-rate product is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Ronald D. MOFFITT, Jasmeet KAUR
  • Publication number: 20180326647
    Abstract: To provide a resin container and a method for manufacturing the same with which it is possible to generate more effervescence than hitherto. This resin container is provided with: a resin container main body inside which is formed an accommodating space that is hermetically sealed using a cap; and a textured region which is formed on an inner surface of the container main body and is formed from a rough surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Naoto Mikajiri, Manabu Inomata
  • Patent number: 10121306
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention can include systems and methods for dispensing consumable products. In one embodiment, a product dispenser is provided. The product dispenser can include a user interface operable to receive consumer inputs and to present product selection information. In addition, the product dispenser can include a reader configured to obtain identification information associated with a consumer. The product dispenser can include a controller in communication with the reader and user interface, and operable to execute a set of instructions to receive from the reader identification information associated with a consumer. The controller can also be operable to execute a set of instructions operable to retrieve consumer information based at least in part on the identification information, and provide product selection information at the user interface based at least in part on the consumer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Dan Peters, Son V. Tran, David R. Newman, Leonard F. Antao, David O. Slagley, H. Brock Kolls
  • Publication number: 20180311883
    Abstract: This disclosure provides new methods to characterize and relate residual stress and orientation imparted to the injection molded polymeric preform with orientation and residual stress in the resulting blow molded bottle. The method developed allows one to define and map the coupled thermal stress histories of both processes to define applicable preferred mutual processing windows for both preform and bottle molding processes. Stretch blow-molding parameters are developed using the disclosed method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Ronald D. Moffitt, Yu Shi
  • Publication number: 20180305073
    Abstract: Syrup dispensing cups are provided that include a body structure that includes a first polyester or co-polyester resin with one or more first co-monomers incorporated into the first resin at a first mol % and having an intrinsic viscosity from about 0.45 dL/g to about 1.3 dL/g when measured at a temperature of 25 C. The body structure has a first opening that is sealed with a first sealing layer and a second opening sealed with a second sealing layer, in which each sealing layer includes a second PET-based co-polyester resin having one or more second co-monomers incorporated into the second resin at a second mol %, and the ratio of the first mole % to the second mol % is less than 1. Methods for or enhancing the shelf-life of syrup dispensing cups are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Ronald D. Moffitt, T. Edwin Freeman, Yu Shi
  • Publication number: 20180305195
    Abstract: The present application describes a product dispenser. The product dispenser may include at least one macro-ingredient source, at least one micro-ingredient source positioned about the dispenser, a diluent source, a dispensing valve, a number of pumps or metering devices, and a user interface. The user interface receives a request for a product type and instructs the pumps or metering devices to dispense a predetermined type and ratio of macro-ingredients, micro-ingredients, and diluent to the dispensing valve for a predetermined flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Gregg Carpenter, David R. Newman, Nilang Patel, Paul A. Phillips, Arthur G. Rudick, Lawrence B. Ziesel
  • Patent number: 10105745
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a metal vessel by way of stamping of vertical halves from a metal sheet, and in particular to a method comprising: stamping at least a first vessel half and a second vessel half from a metal sheet; adhering at least the first vessel half with the second vessel half forming a vessel, the vessel being a single piece article having an opening on one end for ingress and egress of a liquid or a gas and having a seam along two of the vessel vertical walls and along the bottom of the vessel where the first vessel half and the second vessel half make contact; and applying a top finish at the opening of the vessel allowing for a closure to be used to seal and selectively reseal the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventor: John E. Adams
  • Patent number: 10099911
    Abstract: A filling line for filling a number of containers. The filing line may include a continuous conveyor, one or more micro-ingredient dosers positioned about the continuous conveyor, and one or more macro-ingredient stations positioned along the continuous conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: James E. Goldman, James LeSage, Donald E. Gruben, Kevin L. Reid, Jonathan Kirschner, Nilang Patel
  • Publication number: 20180281365
    Abstract: This disclosure provides new heat sealable, barrier laminate packaging structures used for beverage component pouches or cartridges, including new structures and chemical compositions of the pouch made to contain the beverage base, component, or component concentrate. These structures and compositions used for heat sealable, barrier laminate packaging balance good heat sealability with improved performance for flavor scalping, oxygen permeability, and/or undesirable moisture ingress or egress, which affect the stability and useful life of the pouch or cartridge and its contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventor: Ronald D. Moffitt
  • Publication number: 20180274842
    Abstract: Automatic vending machine which cools products for sale. Sale of products not in an appropriate temperature state is prevented. A cooling device executes a partial cooling operation for cooling the product located on a lower side of the plurality of products stored in a product storage chamber when lower space temperature T1 inside the chamber becomes higher than upper-limit value TSu of set temperature range (S1?S2). Then, when the lower space temperature T1 is decreased to a lower-limit value TSL of the set temperature range, the automatic vending machine executes an entire cooling operation for cooling all the plurality of products (S3?S4). Furthermore, when the lower space temperature T1 becomes higher than upper-limit value TSu of the set temperature range during execution of the entire cooling operation, the automatic vending machine stops the entire cooling operation to execute the partial cooling operation (S5?S6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: Sanden Holdings Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Yuuki YANAGISAWA, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10082412
    Abstract: The present application describes a material dosing system. The material dosing system may include a material source and a dosing block. The dosing block may include a first aperture positioned on a first side and a second aperture positioned on a second side. The dosing block further may include a sliding plate positioned between the first side and the second side and having a dosing aperture movable between the first aperture and the second aperture. A coupling may connect the material source and the first aperture of the dosing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Kirschner, Larry J. Mattson
  • Patent number: 10059581
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for dispensing consumable products. An example method may include generating, at a controller associated with a beverage dispenser, a beverage composition record for a beverage that is formulated via an ingredient matrix and dispensed at the beverage dispenser, where the ingredient matrix comprises multiple ingredient packages each comprising a beverage ingredient. The method may include writing depletion data to the ingredient package or to a data processing device associated with the ingredient package for each ingredient package from which a beverage ingredient was included in the dispensed beverage, wherein the depletion data is based at least in part on the beverage composition record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Dan Peters, Son V. Tran, David R. Newman, Leonard F. Antao, David O. Slagley, H. Brock Kolls
  • Patent number: 10046959
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for providing a selectable beverage from a post-mix beverage dispenser are provided. In one embodiment, the method for providing a beverage having a separately selected color from a post-mix beverage dispensing system comprises: (a) providing at least two beverage bases for dispense from the post-mix beverage dispensing system; (b) separately storing at least two colorants in the post-mix beverage dispensing system; (c) receiving a request for a selected beverage base and the separately selected color with a computer processor; and (d) in response to the selection of the selected beverage base and the separately selected color, automatically dispensing through a single faucet of the post-mix beverage dispensing system, continuously in a predetermined ratio for any volume of the beverage dispensed, the selected beverage base and at least one of the colorants to provide the beverage having the separately selected color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventor: Arthur G. Rudick
  • Patent number: 10039834
    Abstract: Sweetened compositions comprising at least one sweetener and rebaudioside X are provided herein. Rebaudioside X is present in the sweetened compositions in a concentration at or below the sweetness recognition threshold, while the at least one sweetener is present in a concentration above its sweetness recognition threshold. Rebaudioside X acts to enhance the sweetness of the sweetened compositions, e.g. beverages and concentrate compositions, thereby allowing for preparation of sweetened compositions with reduced calorie content. Methods of enhancing the sweetness of a sweetened composition with rebaudioside X are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Indra Prakash, Juvenal Higiro, Mary Campbell
  • Patent number: D833793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Lauren A. Olaya, Damian James Reec Mycroft, Jill Hardy