General Mills, Inc.

Craig S Lundquist

Goeran Walther

Bruce J Button

Troy Alan Heuring

Patricia Rowena Licu

Cereal food piece with emoji

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 printed on an exposed face portion and then re-printed multiple times on the image in order to effectively establish a sharp, discernible image on the resulting cereal piece. In addition, the process includes performing each printing operation in a timed and controlled sequence with a cereal piece cutting operation such that the final image is located entirely within a periphery of the resulting cereal piece. In a preferred embodiment, the images constitute emojis.

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Richfield, MN, United States of America

Craig S Lundquist