Patents Assigned to Big Heart Pet Brands
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Publication number: 20170361485Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods are disclosed to manufacture a plurality of edible pieces in a continuous process where each piece is generally different in thickness, shape, size and/or texture from another piece, so as to create, in the aggregate product distribution, pieces of randomly varying thickness, size, shape and/or texture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Davor Juravic, Yomayra Alvarez, Oscar Ortiz, Dwayne P. McDowell, Geoffrey Chase Thornhill
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Publication number: 20160110737Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for assessing the emotional response of non-verbalizing consumers to products and product alternatives. The disclosure further relates to methods for assessing the emotional responses of humans to viewing interactions between non-verbalizing consumers and products or product alternatives. These assessments, separately or together, can guide the design and content of products and materials used to inform potential human purchasers about products intended for non-verbalizing consumers particularly when the viewing-humans stand in a custodial or ownership relationship to the non-verbalizing consumers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Jill VILLAREAL, Philip A. GABLE
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Publication number: 20150313185Abstract: Described herein are chewable articles intended to be provided to animals for purposes including dental cleaning, breath freshening, nutrition, administration to the animal of beneficial agents, satisfaction of the animal's urge to chew, and general enjoyment by the animal. Also disclosed are apparatus and methods for making such chewable articles, the methods including the use of a processing aid to lubricate the article-forming apparatus, such as extruders, portioners, and molds, and to reduce the power requirements of such apparatus in the forming process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: BIG HEART PET BRANDSInventors: Donald R. BARNVOS, John F. BERRY, Melinda S. COPE, Mark DONATUCCI, Juravic DAVOR, Oscar ORTIZ
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Patent number: 9119407Abstract: Processes, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed relating to edible meat pieces obtained from a continuous process where each piece generally appears to be home cooked on a grill or cooked in a smoke house with randomized sear and grill marks and smoke aroma. The invention, in its various embodiments, provides processes for manufacturing shelf-stable food treats comprising: starting with proteinaceous material (ground or whole), mixing the proteinaceous material with preservatives and flavor enhancers to form a foodstuff, extruding proteinaceous material (if ground) through at least one die opening that is at least partially irregular to form at least one strip of extrudate, cooking the extrudate or whole proteinaceous material to form a cooked product, coating the cooked product with a basting solution, grilling the basted products to obtain grilled products with searing, grill marks, and smoke aroma; and cutting the grilled product at a cutting angle into pieces.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventor: Oscar Ortiz
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Publication number: 20140335223Abstract: A pet treat is disclosed, which includes a rotatable, lickable spherical portion; and a support having an internal cavity shaped to conform to the outside of the spherical portion, and wherein the spherical portion is freely rotatable within the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: BIG HEART PET BRANDSInventors: TRACY GRAMMER, Davor JURAVIC, William KEEHN, Steven BAUTISTA, Eric J. LEW
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Patent number: 8714112Abstract: An aerodynamically interactive artifact is proportioned to experience at least one of tumbling, fluttering, and autorotating motion when subjected to free fall in a gravitational field. Suitable shapes include films, strips, butterflies, birds, and the like. The artifact may be contain a neutraceutical, may be dissolvable in pet saliva, and may provide an olfactory sensation for a pet. Dimensionless parameters such as Froude number and length-to-thickness ratios may be used to select aerodynamically interactive motions.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Jay Kling, Tracy Grammer, Eric Lew, Donald Barnvos, Tracy Wojnarowski
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Patent number: 8709520Abstract: A flexible, strip-shaped food product is made by comminuting substantially frozen meat, such as chicken, and heating the comminuted meat to at least partially denature the meat proteins and cooling the cooked meat. About 4% by weight to about 45% by weight of wheat flour is admixed with the cooked meat, with other ingredients, such as an alginate gum, to form a dough. The wheat flour unexpectedly increases tensile strength of the dough and products baked from the dough, and maintains flexibility of the strip-shaped food products over an extended period of time. Cooking of the meat in the presence of salt unexpectedly increases water activity of the pieces, resulting in a product that has a skin and moist middle, while maintaining tensile strength. The dough is rotary-molded into strip-shaped pieces. The rotary mold may have angled die cups. The strip-shaped dough pieces are then baked and dried.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Robert J. Lombard, Kenchu Tham, Haitao Ni, Paul Ziemba, Harry Levine
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Patent number: 8702413Abstract: An extrusion process incorporates a forming manifold where a tubular flow of a second material is intermittently interrupted while a core flow of a first material is discharged substantially continuously. Subsequently, the core flow is severed to form individual food items or treats for humans, animals, and the like, where the tubular flow results in an outer component surrounding an inner component which protrudes from one or both ends of the outer component. Material of the core flow is bone-like, while material of the tubular flow is meat like. Material of the tubular flow may include material from the core flow subjected to mixing in a static mixer to achieve a marbled texture of the outer material.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Donald Barnvos, Hilda Fleischman, Davor Juravic, William Keehn, Steven Bautista, Eric J. Lew, Yomayra Diaz, Franjo Baltorinic
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Patent number: D715516Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Donald Richard Barnvos, Peter John Bronk, Nicole Massey, Ignacio Alfonzo Mendez, Sarah Miller, Gina Lynn Romero, Martin Schnitzer, Geoff Tanner
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Patent number: D725866Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Donald Richard Barnvos, Oscar Ortiz, Glenn Shull, John Frederick Berry, Mark Donatucci, Davor Juravic
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Patent number: D728364Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Nicole Massey, Geoff Tanner
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Patent number: D751266Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Mark Donatucci, Glenn Shull, Rocco Dominic Papalia
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Patent number: D760466Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Big Heart Pet BrandsInventors: Scott McCoy, Sergio A. Jimenez-Marquez, Rajappan Balagopal