US Patent Issued to General Mills on Oct. 7 for "Method and production line for separating conjoined products" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,920, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and production line for separating conjoined products" was invented by Ralph A. Stenvik (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality control apparatus employed in a production line for sticky products in roll form is effectively positioned following a product rolling operation and functions to assure that adjacent rolled products are not conjoined as the products proceed toward a packaging operation. The separating apparatus includes a holding mechanism and a breaking mechanism. During production of the rolled products, the products are direc...