US Patent Issued to THE HERSHEY on Dec. 16 for "Product display design and manufacturing using a product display design model" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,287, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to THE HERSHEY COMPANY (Hershey, Pa.).

"Product display design and manufacturing using a product display design model" was invented by Eric Lawrence (Hershey, Pa.), Christopher P. Gantz (Hershey, Pa.) and Gregory M. Gressel (Hershey, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Product displays are used to hold and present products. A method of manufacturing a product display can include forming display unit and cartridge blanks for assembly into a product display that has been designed using a product display design model executed on a computing device. A dataset of standardized units is created and includ...