Patents Assigned to Pepsico Inc.
  • Modular micro dosing dispensing system
    Patent number: 10918238
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a system including a modular dispensing system comprising a first module comprising a cold engine assembly, and a second module comprising a hot engine assembly. The system comprises a carbonator configured to dissolve carbon dioxide in water to form carbonated water. The cold engine assembly comprises a cold bath. A cold liquid mixer is configured to mix a concentrate and the carbonated water to form a cold ready-to-drink liquid. The hot engine assembly comprises a hot tank. A hot liquid mixer is configured to mix the hot water from the hot tank and a powder to form a hot ready-to-drink liquid. In an aspect, the cold engine assembly and the hot engine assembly form a single dispensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurmeet Bhutani, Rahul Sadashiv Kamble, Tanmaya Vats
  • Beverage dispensing valve system
    Patent number: 10906795
    Abstract: A post-mix beverage dispenser utilizing a beverage dispensing valve including a movable valve activation device is provided. The beverage dispensing valve can move the valve activation device to a predetermined activation position to dispense a fluid in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Balstad, Terry Tae-II Chung, Hari K. Koripoti, Mohan Rao P
  • Cap and container for Carbonated drinks
    Patent number: 10899507
    Abstract: A cap and container reduce carbonation loss in filling containers with carbonated beverages. The cap has a splashguard with a circular bottom connected by a conical transition to a smaller diameter, cylindrical ring portion. A circular dispersing disk is above the transition and connected to the cap, with a small radial gap between the disk's periphery and the splashguard. A fluid seal is interposed between the ring portion and an open top of the container. The dispersing disk directs a fluid stream outward against the splashguard where the fluid passes through the radial gap around the disk and flows downward in a laminar flow over the conical transition and ring portions. A lip on the bottom of the ring portion extends outward and downward to conduct the laminar flow onto the container sidewall, which is inclined at less than five degrees to maintain laminar flow along the sidewall when filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: PepsiCo, Inc., DrinkStation, Inc.
    Inventor: Diego Macrellino
  • Vending machine
    Patent number: 10867463
    Abstract: A vending machine with a curved exterior shape is disclosed. Some embodiments of the vending machine are circular in design, and include a transparent upper housing that allows customers to see into the interior of the vending machine. Products for vending may be stored in a non-transparent lower housing. A centrally-located product delivery system transports products for vending from the lower housing to delivery portals located on the upper housing. The product delivery system is able to move along a vertical line and rotate through the horizontal plane and can deliver products from any portion of the lower housing to any delivery portals located on the upper housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Emad Jafa, Xuejun Li, Yong Serock, Cheuk Chi Lau, Martyn Mitchell, Euan Morrison, Wai Chan, Sam Johnstone, Erik Williams
  • Beverage dispenser systems and methods
    Patent number: 10865091
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing system is provided, including a main body that includes an interior cavity adapted to receive a beverage container, an adaptor module, and a controlled gas system. The adaptor module is configured to provide fluidic coupling from the beverage container to the controlled gas system, such that a beverage may be dispensed through from a tap connected to the adaptor with the aid of positive gas pressure disposed on a beverage surface within the beverage container. The controlled gas system exerts a positive pressure on a surface of the beverage in the beverage container such that when a tap is opened to dispense the beverage, the relative pressure difference between the positive pressure on the surface of the beverage and the ambient pressure causes the beverage to be dispensed from the tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh Bhutani, Prashant Deshpande
  • Mobile vending machine
    Patent number: 10854033
    Abstract: Mobile vending machines for storing and dispensing products to consumers at various locations. A mobile vending machine may include a product storage system, a user interface, a powertrain system, and a control unit. A consumer may view a list of products in the mobile vending machine using a mobile device, such as a smart phone. The consumer may summon the mobile vending machine to a location using the mobile device, and the mobile vending machine may automatically complete a transaction with the consumer, where the consumer receives a product from the mobile vending machine. The control unit may enable the mobile vending machine to autonomously travel to the location of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Emad Jafa, Cheuk Chi Lau, Xuejun Li, Yong Serock, Wai Ting Chan, Samuel Luke Johnstone, Martyn Thomas Mitchell, Euan Morrison, Erik David Williams
  • Container filling system and valve for same
    Patent number: 10836624
    Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Eaton, David William Martin, David Jay Warburton, Nathan John Coleman, Samuel Frank Feller, Thomas John Evans, Jason Karl Sorge, Randy A. Straub
  • Plastic bottle with a champagne base and production methods thereof
    Patent number: 10836531
    Abstract: A beverage container for a carbonated beverage may include a base with a plurality of feet extending therefrom. The feet may act to reinforce a punt in the base of the beverage container to prevent deformation of the base of the beverage container when a carbonated or other pressurized beverage is added to the beverage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal Mahajan, Syed Peer, Bruno Telesca, Moreno Barel
  • Beverage dispenser
    Patent number: 10807853
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing system having a handheld liquid dispense device with a body portion and a dispensing head. The dispensing system includes an ingredient system located remotely from the handheld liquid dispense device, piping extending from the ingredient system to the handheld liquid dispense device, the ingredient system having a plurality of beverage ingredient sources and configured to supply beverage ingredients to the piping for the dispensing of a beverage from the handheld liquid dispense device. The dispensing system may also include a user interface device configured to receive a first user selection for a beverage and a second user selection for an ingredient modifying the beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert William Balstad, Scott Thomas Loomis
  • Method to Improve Dispersibility of a Material Having Low Solubility in Water
    Publication number: 20200315232
    Abstract: Co-precipitates of a water insoluble food ingredient material and a hydrophilic polymer, and edible aqueous microdispersions of such co-precipitates are provided. The water insoluble food ingredient material may include rebaudioside D and the hydrophilic polymer may include carboxymethyl cellulose. Methods of making co-precipitates of a water insoluble food ingredient material and a hydrophilic polymer are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter S. GIVEN, Daniela WHITE
  • Beverage dispensing system
    Patent number: 10787356
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing system is provided. The beverage dispensing system can include a nozzle module connected to a beverage dispenser housing. The nozzle module can be vertically and/or horizontally spaced from a beverage dispenser valve and nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Madden, Steven T. Jersey, Scott Thomas Loomis, Fernando A. Ubidia
  • Beverage nanoemulstions produced by high shear processing
    Patent number: 10772345
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates beverage nanoemulsions and methods for making such beverage nanoemulsions. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods for making beverage nanoemulsions using high shear processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventor: Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D896651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait Bhat, Girolama Bueti, Syed Peer, Bruno Telesca
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D898576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Niklas Gustafsson, Christopher Nobles, Gustavo de Souza Messias, Christopher John Miller
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D899251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Emilian Dan Cartis, Ryan James Campbell, Niklas Gustafsson, Meatta T. Kemokai, Kamal Mahajan, Syed Peer, Bruno Telesca, Koby Hebborn Trout, Moreno Barel
  • Cap
    Patent number: D899936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Eduardo Broen, Christopher Andrew Gregory, Niklas Gustafsson, Colin John Haynes, Stephen Lim, Kai Xiang Lin
  • Container
    Patent number: D904190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait Bhat, Girish Nilkanth Deshpande, Maximiliano Rodriguez, Benjamin Joseph Tantanella, Bruno Telesca, Alexander David Warning, Lei Zhao, Nathan Daniel Grubbs, Ryan Alan Klenke
  • Container
    Patent number: D904889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait Bhat, Girish Nilkanth Deshpande, Maximiliano Rodriguez, Benjamin Joseph Tantanella, Bruno Telesca, Nathan Daniel Grubbs, Ryan Alan Klenke
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D910450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait Bhat, Bruno Telesca, Marc T. Wiescinski
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D910453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal Mahajan, Syed Peer, Bruno Telesca, Moreno Barel