US Patent Issued to General Mills on Aug. 25 for "Packaged dough product and method of packaging" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,655, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Packaged dough product and method of packaging" was invented by Benjamin J. Huber (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged food product includes a container having therein a cup for a food ingredient, at least one dough product and a plastic separator interposed between the cup and the at least one dough product. The separator seats upon a rim of the cup and includes a peripheral side surface in frictional engagement with an inner sidewall of the container. The separator has a convex or dome shape when initially inserted into the container...