Patents Assigned to Kellogg North America Company
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Patent number: 9504273Abstract: A sweet potato snack chip which is made by cooking dough that contains a sweet potato flour composition that includes sweet potato powder, sweet potato flakes and mixtures of these. The sweet potato snack chip has a chip density of from about 0.6 g/ml to about 2.0 g/ml, and a chip fracture strength of from about 400 gf to about 900 gf. The preferred dough formed from the sweet potato flour composition is sheetable and cohesive. Fabricated snacks made from this dough have desirable taste and texture characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: KELLOGG NORTH AMERICA COMPANYInventor: Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villigran
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Patent number: 9023445Abstract: A composite container for storing perishable products may include a composite body and a composite bottom. The composite bottom may include a bottom fiber layer, a bottom oxygen barrier layer, and a bottom sealant layer, such that the composite bottom has an upper surface and a lower surface. A hermetic seal may be formed between a sealing portion of the composite bottom and an interior surface of the composite body. When an internal pressure is applied to the interior surface of the composite body and the upper surface of the platen portion of the composite bottom, an external pressure is applied to the exterior surface of the composite body and the lower surface of the composite bottom, and the internal pressure is about 20 kPa greater than the external pressure, the platen portion of the composite bottom may not extend beyond the bottom edge of the composite body.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventors: Brian Daniel Guzzi, Robert Paul Cassoni
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Patent number: 8960836Abstract: A method of making edible substrates that have an image registered on them in a consistent manner. The method comprises the steps of providing an edible substrate sheet, and an image source, wherein the image source has at least one image. Further, a trigger pulse signal is provided, which relays the frequency of a process element that is communicated to an image disposal device. The image disposal device uses the trigger pulse signal to determine when to dispose an image from the image source. Then an image is disposed on the edible substrate sheet with the image disposal device to form an image-disposed edible substrate sheet. And then a portion of the edible substrate sheet that comprises an image is separated into an individual piece.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventor: Jeffrey Wes Martin
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Patent number: 8470386Abstract: A rice flour composition having: from about 20% to about 95%, by weight, of a rice flour that has a WAI of from about 2.6 to about 9; and a Peak Viscosity from about 4 RVU to about 130 RVU; and from about 5% to about 80%, by weight, of rice starch materials that have a WAI of below about 2.2; a Peak Viscosity from about 100 RVU to about 900 RVU, and a soluble amylose content of less than 10%, by weight. The rice starch materials can be selected from the group consisting of waxy rice starch, acetylated rice starch, cross linked rice starch and mixtures thereof. The compositions can be used to produce food products such as fabricated sheeted snacks, extruded products, sauces, coatings for fried foods, dog foods, dog biscuits, baby foods and breads. The preferred dough formed from the inventive rice flour composition is sheetable and forms a cohesive dough. Fabricated snacks made from this dough has the desired taste and texture characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventor: Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran
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Patent number: 8469475Abstract: A method of making edible substrates that have an image registered on them in a consistent manner. The method comprises the steps of providing an edible substrate sheet, and an image source, wherein the image source has at least one image. Further, a trigger pulse signal is provided, which relays the frequency of a process element that is communicated to an image disposal device. The image disposal device uses the trigger pulse signal to determine when to dispose an image from the image source. Then an image is disposed on the edible substrate sheet with the image disposal device to form an image-disposed edible substrate sheet. And then a portion of the edible substrate sheet that comprises an image is separated into an individual piece.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventor: Jeffrey Wes Martin
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Patent number: 8440251Abstract: Improved doughs containing dehydrated potato products, food products made from said doughs, and the methods for making the same are disclosed. Although the improved doughs contain non-ideal dehydrated potato products, processing efficiency and finished product quality are comparable to that of finished products made with doughs containing dehydrated potato products having from 40% to 60% broken cells and from 16% to 27% free amylose.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventors: Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran, Anthony John Boiano
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Patent number: D720619Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventors: Nicole Buscemi, Brian Daniel Guzzi
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Patent number: D823117Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Kellogg North America CompanyInventors: Nicole Buscemi, Brian Daniel Guzzi