Patents by Inventor Mike Sharpe

Mike Sharpe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Packaged food
    Patent number: 11905091
    Abstract: A packaged food that includes a sealed bag defining therein a sealed cavity containing a food, the sealed bag being formed from a flexible packaging film that includes a monoaxially oriented polymeric layer defining a preferential tear direction extending along the film; wherein the packaging film is configured to form first and second elongate tear-away portions of the sealed bag which are on opposite sides of, and adjacent to, an elongate central portion of the sealed bag, the first and second elongate tear-away portions and the elongate central portion extending along the preferential tear direction, whereby tearing away of the first and second elongate tear-away portions along the preferential tear direction to open the sealed bag leaves the elongate central portion forming a handle portion of the opened bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH
    Inventor: Mike Sharpe
  • Packaged Food
    Publication number: 20210261316
    Abstract: A packaged food that includes a sealed bag defining therein a sealed cavity containing a food, the sealed bag being formed from a flexible packaging film that includes a monoaxially oriented polymeric layer defining a preferential tear direction extending along the film; wherein the packaging film is configured to form first and second elongate tear-away portions of the sealed bag which are on opposite sides of, and adjacent to, an elongate central portion of the sealed bag, the first and second elongate tear-away portions and the elongate central portion extending along the preferential tear direction, whereby tearing away of the first and second elongate tear-away portions along the preferential tear direction to open the sealed bag leaves the elongate central portion forming a handle portion of the opened bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Mike Sharpe
  • Food bag
    Patent number: D905565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH
    Inventor: Mike Sharpe