US Patent Issued to General Mills on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for producing cereal pieces with printed images" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,487, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and system for producing cereal pieces with printed images" was invented by Craig S. Lundquist (Richfield, Minn.), Bruce J. Button (Minneapolis), Troy Alan Heuring (Waverly, Minn.) and Goeran Walther (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mass producing cereal pieces provides images on the cereal pieces. In particular, the invention is directed to incorporating a printing operation into a cereal production process, wherein a series of printing operations are performed for each cereal piece such that a common image is print...