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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:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Wright, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Assignee:
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A method for customer manufacturing control of a process containing trade secret formulations, comprises the following steps: associating tag descriptors to a corresponding trade secret; formulating a product as a function a selected number and quantity of the tag descriptors; transmitting the tag formulation to a manufacturing system; and decoding said tag formulation into a corresponding trade secret formulation; wherein the corresponding trade secret formulation is not accessible by the customer.