Patents by Inventor Richard M. Vondell

Richard M. Vondell 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).

  • Method of making a ready-to-eat breakfast cereal
    Patent number: 4178392
    Abstract: A ready-to-eat breakfast cereal product contains coarse particulate vegetable components, sugar components, and shortening, with or without other ingredients, and is substantially free of flour. The ingredients are mixed into a heterogeneous moldable mass, and the mass is die molded to form a plurality of bite sized pieces which are dried to form a crisp structure characterized by a matrix of particulate components coated and adhered together by the sugar and shortening components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: Kellogg Company
    Inventors: Harold G. Gobble, Richard M. Vondell, Raymond Mooi