Consumer products packaging and methods for producing packaging

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9443179-B2
Application number	US-201213526852-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2012
Priority date	Jun 19, 2012
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

A product package comprises an indicia printed thereon. The indicia comprises a set of visibly discernible individual dots. The dots are arrayed to form the indicia and at least a portion of the dots are offset from their nearest neighbor dots by less than one dot diameter in one direction or at an offset angle of other than 45 or 90 degrees.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A package comprising an indicia, the indicia comprising a pattern of individual dots, each dot having a first dot diameter, the dots arrayed in a pattern, the pattern set substantially against an orthogonal x-y coordinate system, at least a portion of the dots having nearest neighbors dimensionally offset by a non-integer number of first dot diameters in at least one of the x and y directions.

2. The package of claim 1 , the indicia further comprising at least one dot having a second dot diameter, the second dot diameter substantially different from the first dot diameter.

3. The package according to claim 2 , the dots having a second dot diameter being arranged in a pattern distinct from the pattern of the indicia.

4. The package according to claim 3 , the indicia comprising one or more characters, wherein the distinct pattern of the second dot diameter dots is associated with at least one character of the indicia.

5. The package according to claim 1 , the indicia comprising a plurality of characters, the plurality of characters associated with a processing date of the package.

6. The package according to claim 1 , at least a portion of the indicia comprising out-of-matrix dots.

7. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the package comprises a primary product package.

8. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the package comprises a secondary package.

9. The package according to claim 1 wherein the indicia comprises a batch code.

10. A package comprising a printed indicia, the printed indicia comprising at least one alpha-numeric character and a set of out-of-matrix dots having a first dot diameter and disposed in a pattern, the pattern of the out-of-matrix dots associated with the at least one character.

11. The package according to claim 10 , the indicia comprising a plurality of characters, the plurality of characters associated with a processing date of the package.

12. The package of claim 10 , the indicia further comprising dots having a second dot diameter, the second dot diameter substantially different from, and larger than, the first dot diameter.

13. The package according to claim 12 , the dots having a second dot diameter being arranged in a pattern distinct from the pattern of the indicia.

14. The package according to claim 13 , wherein the distinct pattern of the second dot diameter dots is associated with at least one character of the indicia.

15. The package according to claim 10 , wherein the package comprises a primary product package.

16. The package according to claim 10 , wherein the package comprises a secondary package.

17. The package according to claim 10 , the indicia comprising a batch code.

Assignees

• Meadows Grant Robert
• Stonehouse Jonathan Richard
• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Meadows Grant Robert
• Stonehouse Jonathan Richard

Classifications

• G06K19/06037 Primary

  multi-dimensional coding · CPC title

• G06K19/06093

  the marking being constructed out of a plurality of similar markings, e.g. a plurality of barcodes randomly oriented on an object · CPC title

• G06K19/06056

  the marking comprising a further embedded marking, e.g. a 1D bar code with the black bars containing a smaller sized coding · CPC title