Patents by Inventor Vinod Kumar Bansal

Vinod Kumar Bansal 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).

  • Product tray
    Patent number: 6978892
    Abstract: A product tray having a back panel that is higher than the front and side panels is described. The product tray surprisingly has excellent compressive strength when filled with product and allows for good product visibility from the front and side without comprising the stability of the product within the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Stephen Anthony Gaeta
  • Asymmetric package for market appeal
    Publication number: 20040232023
    Abstract: The invention is directed to asymmetric packages that can be randomly labeled to have labeling that tilts to the right and left. The packages when labeled and displayed in a group have excellent marketing appeal and create a wave-like appearance or illusion of animation to the eye of the consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Sharon Reiter Lindberg, Louis Frank Lombardi, Tobias Funk
  • Product tray
    Publication number: 20040188305
    Abstract: A product tray having a back panel that is higher than the front and side panels is described. The product tray surprisingly has excellent compressive strength when filled with product and allows for good product visibility from the front and side without comprising the stability of the product within the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Stephen Anthony Gaeta
  • Tamper evident dispensing closure
    Patent number: 5996849
    Abstract: A tamper evident container with a dispensing closure is disclosed. The patent deals with a container having a smooth neck portion and having a removable dispenser closure mounted on the neck portion. The closure, in turn, is formed with a top, a skirt depending from the top and a dispensing lid mounted on the top. The top has a dispensing orfice in it which communicates with the interior of the container. The lid is moveable from a position closing the dispensing orifice to a position opening the dispenser orifice. A tamper evident neck wrap is mounted on the container over the skirt and the lid which prevents the dispensing lid from being moved to an open position without tearing or breaking the neck wrap to show the container has opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Easy open dispensing cap
    Patent number: 5865354
    Abstract: An easy opening dispenser closure is disclosed having a top and an annular depending base skirt with a lid mounted on the top. The lid has a downwardly depending annular edge which in turn has an extension with an end shaped to fit the end of a thumb. The skirt has a thumb recess in which the extension fits. The extension locks the lid securely and detachably to the base skirt. The lid has a chamfered edge on the top to assist in centering the entire closure on the container during capping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Container
    Patent number: D443521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
  • Container
    Patent number: D444069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
  • Container
    Patent number: D444070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
  • Container
    Patent number: D444391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
  • Package cap
    Patent number: D513987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D525531
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D555498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Squeezable package with cap
    Patent number: D612737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Squeezable package with cap
    Patent number: D612738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Squeezable package with cap
    Patent number: D613173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Closure
    Patent number: D413064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal