General Mills, Inc.

Achilles Dimitri Speliotopoulos

Randal J Monforton

Hong Ji

Clifton Forrest Richardson

Sheri M Schellhaass

Heidi A Emanuel

Nita M Bentley

Ayron B Glynn

A method for controlling heating and avoiding arcing in microwave food packaging having a conductive material such as a metal foil on the packaging by controlling the cross-sectional shape of the foil to have a predetermined shape at the edge portion of the foil including controlling a wedge angle and a corner radius of the edge of the foil.

Foil edge control for microwave heating

A set of tools provides the ability to generate computer-based representations of three-dimensional pieces and produce a representation of a combination of such pieces in a container such as a bowl. Tools such as the puff tool and flake tool change two-dimensional curves into three-dimensional pieces. Further tools are provided to bend, twist and shear three-dimensional pieces. A coating tool is used to create and modify a variety of coatings that are applied on top of cereal pieces to create frost, glaze and particulates. A container tool allows placement of pieces into a bowl. Pieces are randomized prior to dropping them into the bowl. Further tools continue to drop each piece and rotate them if necessary to avoid overlap. A computer rendered image is photorealistic but contains subtle differences that can be discerned upon close inspection.

Image producing system for three-dimensional pieces

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Achilles Dimitri Speliotopoulos