Patents Assigned to Mars Incorporated
  • Cocoa extracts as antioxidants
    Patent number: 7820713
    Abstract: Disclosed and claimed are cocoa extracts such as polyphenols or procyanidins, methods for preparing such extracts, as well as uses for them, especially as antineoplastic agents and antioxidants. Disclosed and claimed are antineoplastic compositions containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins and methods for treating patients employing the compositions. Additionally disclosed and claimed is a kit for treating a patient in need of treatment with an antineoplastic agent containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins as well as a lyophilized antineoplastic composition containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins. Further, disclosed and claimed is the use of the invention in antioxidant, preservative and topoisomerase-inhibiting compositions and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Leo J. Romanczyk, Jr., John F. Hammerstone, Jr., Margaret M. Buck
  • System and method for designing and producing confectionary arrangement
    Patent number: 7818089
    Abstract: Confectionary image design system including a graphical user interface through which a user defines a pattern of confectionary pieces to be arranged on a substrate. A computer processor controls the graphical user interface through which the user defines the pattern, and provides instructions for arranging the confectionary pieces in the defined pattern. A container retains the confectionary pieces used to form the defined pattern. A robot receives from the computer processor the instructions for arranging the confectionary pieces, retrieves the confectionary pieces stored in the container, and arranges the pieces on the substrate in the pattern defined by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Alex A. Hanna, Bruce W. Keen, Richard J. Barrett
  • ROTARY ULTRASONIC SEALING
    Publication number: 20100243172
    Abstract: The invention is an apparatus for forming an ultrasonic weld that includes a sonotrode having an ultrasonic actuator coupled to an elongate sealing end face for delivering ultrasonic energy to the webs in the sealing gap and a rotating cylindrical anvil having at least one raised portion extending longitudinally along an outer surface thereof. The raised portion has a radially outer surface, whereby the sealing gap is defined intermittently between the end face of the sonotrode and the radially outer surface of the raised portion of the anvil as the raised portion rotates past the end face of the sonotrode. The elongate sealing end face of the sonotrode has a substantially helical surface, whereby the sealing gap travels helically along the surface as the raised portion of the anvil cylinder rotates past the end face of the sonotrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Blanchard, David Wicks, Michel Montoya
  • Preservation of process sensitive ingredients in an energy food product by product partitioning
    Patent number: 7794764
    Abstract: A process for preparing an energy food product comprising the steps of (a) processing at least one base energy food component at a temperature and shear sufficient to form a homogeneous base energy food matrix; and (b) subsequently mixing at least one process sensitive component with said homogeneous base energy food matrix at a temperature and shear that does not deleteriously effect said process sensitive component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward L. Rapp, Ralph Lee, Jamie Troy, Jeannette Dido, Douglas Mann, Thomas Collins, Kevin Rabinovitch
  • Method for increasing cognitive function and neurogenesis
    Patent number: 7763588
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for improving cognitive performance in a physically active subject. The invention further provides a method of enhancing neurogenesis in a physically active subject. In one embodiment, the method encompasses administering to the subject an effective amount of one or more flavonoids. In a further embodiment, the method encompasses administering to the subject an effective amount of one or more antioxidants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignees: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Henriette van Praag, Fred H. Gage, John Hammerstone, Mark Allen Kelm
  • PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20100178401
    Abstract: A method for the production of a stabilized packaged food product includes the steps of: filling a tray with a predetermined quantity of a food starting material; introducing the tray into a pressure vessel and conveying the tray through the pressure vessel while performing the following steps in sequence inside the pressure vessel: (i) treating the food starting material with high-temperature pressurized steam to sterilize the material, (ii) dosing the sterile food material inside the tray with a predetermined amount of sterile water; and (iii) applying a lid to the tray to seal the food product inside the tray while maintaining the tray in a sterile environment. Also provided are an apparatus for performing the method and packaged stabilized full moisture food products obtainable by the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Cornelius Jan Van Appeldoorn, Paul Alois Maria Otten, Annica Bonna, Martijn Johannes Maria De Vries, Marcel Christian Anthony Velthuis
  • Epicatechin and vasodilation
    Patent number: 7754760
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising epicatechin and method of use of such compositions for inducing vasodilation of blood vessels in humans and veterinary animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Leo J. Romanczyk, Jr., Harold H. Schmitz
  • System comprising several packages of candy bars and holder therefor
    Patent number: 7748533
    Abstract: A system comprising several packages (4) for one or more candy bars or other similar products, as well as a holder (7) for the packages (4), with the special feature that the holder (7) comprises at least two panels (12) being hingeably connected to each other along adjacent edges thereof, wherein each panel (12) engages at least one package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Niels Van Marle, Ronald Lewerisa
  • Method for seizing rows of bag packings (pouches)
    Patent number: 7744139
    Abstract: A method for picking up and handling filled, closed rectangular bags, film packs and pouches, which have a bottom side, and two longitudinal sides, and are provided on the bottom side with a bottom fold. The pouches, standing on one of the longitudinal sides, are arranged in parallel to one another in a row and in each case are picked up with a gripper mechanism having comb-like, finger-like gripper elements on an opposite (upper) longitudinal side with the gripper elements being moved between the upper longitudinal sides of adjacent pouches. The gripper elements are moved in the longitudinal direction of the upper longitudinal sides, from the base side and pass the same, between adjacent longitudinal sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Kalisch, Wolfgang Schutz, Meinhard Protz
  • Pet treat
    Patent number: D618427
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Shannon Todd Morey, Brian Gregory Long, Herbert Todd Robinson
  • Pet treat
    Patent number: D618428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Emine Unlu, Cari Ann Enot, William Gharibian
  • Multi-piece feeding bowl
    Patent number: D618860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Michael Friedland, Gary N. Chisholm, Diana L. Ortiz, Michael J. Wilson, Kevin Rabinovitch, Hanif Matthew Wadalawala, Ruth Moecks, Jane Elkins
  • Treat for pets
    Patent number: D618879
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: John Fitzpatrick, Wesley E. Locke, Michael Innis, Douglas H. Schalk, Shannon Morey, Tracey Dianne Ziener
  • Chocolate bar
    Patent number: D619776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Susan Wilson, Lauren Brooking, Phillip Jenkins, Robert Wheatcroft
  • Pet treat
    Patent number: D621577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter S. Slusarczyk
  • Pet treat
    Patent number: D621578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jerry Farkas, Shannon Morey, Michael Innis, Todd Robinson, Tracey Ziener
  • Confection
    Patent number: D622929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventor: Brent A. Anderson
  • Candy
    Patent number: D622930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Lynn Krumholz, Brent Anderson
  • Package
    Patent number: D624401
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert M. Friedman, Sharon M. Weaver
  • Packaging
    Patent number: D625613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: John Cowan-Hughes, Hayley Woolford, Bruce Hannant