US Patent Issued to THE HERSHEY on June 24 for "Scored candy bar wrapper and method of opening same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,050, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE HERSHEY COMPANY (Hershey, Pa.).

"Scored candy bar wrapper and method of opening same" was invented by Joel Farmer (Annville, Pa.) and William J. Hendricks (Elizabethtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of forming a candy bar wrapper includes forming a primary score line in a film material and cutting the film material to form the candy bar wrapper. The primary score line extends in a predetermined direction. The film material comprising at least one film layer, a film thickness, a first film surface, and a second film surface opposite the first film surface. The candy bar wrap...