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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mars Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23G / ; A23G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426306 ; 426 99 ; 426100 ; 426101 ; 426103 ; 426565 ; 426572 ; 426660 ;
Abstract
A substantially transparent layer of cocoa butter or equivalent thereof on a confection, surrounded by an aqueous medium, prevents color bleeding from the confection into the aqueous medium and inhibits deterioration of the confection caused by the aqueous medium.