Patents Assigned to Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation
  • RFID product identification and tracking system
    Patent number: 8154406
    Abstract: Apparatus for RFID tagging of packages is provided, including a conveyor, along which tags having microchips and antennae are applied to packages, with the tags being encoded via radio waves, to contain information about package identification and other information, with the encoding being done upstream of a palletizer system, and with the palletizer system being provided for receiving encoded packages from the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin L. Feldenzer
  • RFID Product Identification and Tracking System
    Publication number: 20100127872
    Abstract: Apparatus for RFID tagging of packages is provided, including a conveyor, along which tags having microchips and antennae are applied to packages, with the tags being encoded via radio waves, to contain information about package identification and other information, with the encoding being done upstream of a palletizer system, and with the palletizer system being provided for receiving encoded packages from the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: HERSHEY CHOCOLATE AND CONFECTIONARY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kevin L. Feldenzer
  • RFID product identification and tracking system
    Patent number: 7679510
    Abstract: Apparatus for RFID tagging of packages is provided, including a conveyor, along which tags having microchips and antennae are applied to packages, with the tags being encoded via radio waves, to contain information about packaged identification and other information, with the encoding being done upstream of a palletizer system, and with the palletizer system being provided for receiving encoded packages from the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin L. Feldenzer
  • Breath freshening comestible product and method of controlling breath malodor
    Patent number: 6511679
    Abstract: A comestible product which includes inulin, a second component and a divalent zinc or copper. When the comestible product is a tablet, a pressed tablet, a lozenge, a hard candy or a chewy candy, the second component is a formentable carbohydrate which may, optionally, include a polyol. When the comestible product is a chewing gum the second component is a polyol, a formentable carbohydrate or mixtures thereof. The comestible product is useful in controlling breath malodor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald D'Amelia, Joseph Bell, Walter Hopkins, Saul Scheinbach, Jack Homcy, Martin Cole, Robert J. Huzinec, Judith K. Cooley, Thomas J. Carroll
  • Breath freshening comestible product and method of controlling breath malodor
    Publication number: 20020076433
    Abstract: A comestible product which includes inulin, a second component and a divalent zinc or copper. When the comestible product is a tablet, a pressed tablet, a lozenge, a hard candy or a chewy candy, the second component is a formentable carbohydrate which may, optionally, include a polyol. When the comestible product is a chewing gum the second component is a polyol, a formentable carbohydrate or mixtures thereof. The comestible product is useful in controlling breath malodor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation,
    Inventors: Ronald D'Amelia, Joseph Bell, Walter Hopkins, Saul Scheinbach, Jack Homcy, Martin Cole, Robert J. Huzinec, Judith K. Cooley, Thomas J. Carroll