According to several sites on the Internet, on March 3, 1941, Forrest Mars, the candy tycoon, received a patent for a method of making what would later be called M&M's. Of the sites that source this claim such as the Wikipedia article on Forrest Mars, all appear to link to this MIT page:
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/forrest-e-mars-sr None of the sites provide the patent number. I've tried Espacenet and Google Patents and neither database shows Forrest Mars being awarded a US patent in March 1941. I can't use the USPTO database because the USPTO database only allows searches by patent number or family for patents prior to 1976. This is frustrating, and the moral of the story is: ALWAYS CITE THE PATENT NUMBER IF YOU'RE GOING TO REFERENCE SOMEONE RECEIVING A PATENT.
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Al Petrofsky
11/4/2021 01:03:33 pm
Hello,
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Al Petrofsky
11/4/2021 01:26:38 pm
Oops, "November 11" above should have been "November 4".
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