Patents by Inventor Susan M. Benjamin

Susan M. Benjamin 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).

  • SHELF-STABLE CAKE TRUFFLE
    Publication number: 20220192207
    Abstract: A modified cake formula and baking process to have a shelf-stable food product, especially micro-safe cake with water activity (Aw) less than about 0.71, less than about 0.7 or ideally less than about 0.65. The process involves grinding the baked cake fine crumbs, and blending the resulting crumbs with a binding agent to make a cake truffle, wherein the cake truffle has a water into activity less than around 0.7, and optionally covering the cake truffle with a confectionary coating, or with milk chocolate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Dongming Tang, Xiaoying Wang, Julia J. Watterson, Susan M. Benjamin, Robert J. Peles
  • Process for preparing a sugar coating on an irregular shaped confection
    Publication number: 20080026131
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for forming a hard sugar coating on an irregularly shaped chocolate confection which tapers into a pointed tip on said confection on a non-base portion thereof, which comprises forming a rounded contour on the base thereof and applying at least two coating syrups and preferably three coating syrups onto the surface of the confections under specific conditions and optionally polishing said confection. The present invention is also directed to the product formed from the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: THE HERSHEY COMPANY
    Inventors: Susan M. Benjamin, Shawn M. Bennett, James C. Bew, Jordana L. Swank