Patents Examined by Assaf Zilbering
  • Patent number: 11968990
    Abstract: The present application relates to creamer comprising vegetable lipids, casein, maltose, phosphates, and allulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Mi Lee, Seong Bo Kim, Yang Hee Kim, Seong Jun Cho, Myung Sook Choi, Young Ji Han, Ji Young Choi, Su Jung Cho, Un Ju Jung, Eun Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 11871762
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of an edible fat-continuous spread comprising at most 45 wt. % of fat using liquid oil, a fat powder comprising structuring fat and a water-phase, comprising the steps of: a. providing a mixture comprising the water-phase and the fat powder; b. subjecting said mixture to at least a partial vacuum; c. mixing the mixture prepared at step ‘b’ to provide a fat-continuous spread, wherein the liquid oil may be added to the mixture at any of steps ‘a’, ‘b’, or ‘c’ or when added in parts in any combination at steps ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: UPFIELD EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Berend Jan Arends, Christiaan Michael Beindorff, Albert Jan Bezemer, Teunis de Man
  • Patent number: 11812756
    Abstract: A system and method for making a jerky meat product may include a pump to pump heated brine at a positive pressure at a desired temperature. Embodiments may also include an injector coupled to the pump to receive the heated brine and inject the heated brine into a cool meat product to elevate the meat product temperature. Embodiments may include a slicer that receives the meat product after the heated brine is injected and slices the meat product to a first thickness. A topical applicator may apply a topical application to coat an exterior of the slices and a flattener may flatten the slices to a second thickness less than the first thickness and to cause the topical application to adhere to the slices. Embodiments may further include a drying oven and/or grill to dry the slices of the second thickness to a desired moisture level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: THE HILLSHIRE BRANDS COMPANY
    Inventors: Kent M. Bearson, Simon Hugh Politzer, Tasha Joy Hermes, Julie Michelle McIntire, Dejing Fu, Brenda M. Dismore, Nicholas James Miller
  • Patent number: 11771107
    Abstract: A chocolate that has a reduced trans fatty acid content and still has a high compatibility with cocoa butter, high blooming resistance and good meltability in the mouth. A transesterified fat or oil has a content of unsaturated fatty acids controlled such that it is 10 mass % or less in the constituent fatty acid composition thereof, and the composition of other fatty acids is adjusted to a preset content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei Watanabe, Yasuko Sato
  • Patent number: 11707077
    Abstract: Provided are engineered meat products formed as a plurality of at least partially fused layers, wherein each layer comprises at least partially fused multicellular bodies comprising non-human myocytes and wherein the engineered meat is comestible. Also provided are multicellular bodies comprising a plurality of non-human myocytes that are adhered and/or cohered to one another; wherein the multicellular bodies are arranged adjacently on a nutrient-permeable support substrate and maintained in culture to allow the multicellular bodies to at least partially fuse to form a substantially planar layer for use in formation of engineered meat. Further described herein are methods of forming engineered meat utilizing said layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Gabor Forgacs, Francoise Marga, Karoly Robert Jakab
  • Patent number: 11659848
    Abstract: A novel oleogel is provided comprising an edible oil in an amount of at least 95 wt % combined with a binary wax blend in an amount of less than 5 wt % of the oleogel, wherein the oleogel exhibits less than 10% oiling off and a back-extrusion hardness of greater than 100 g-force. The edible oil may be a high oleic acid-containing oil, such as a vegetable oil having a total monounsaturated fatty acid content of at least about 25% by wt. The binary wax blend may comprise at least two waxes selected from rice bran wax, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, sunflower wax, jojoba oil wax, corn oil wax, sugarcane wax, ouricury wax, beeswax and retamo wax. The oleogel provides an edible fat substitute prepared from oil having a reduced saturated fatty acid and trans fatty acid content that may be incorporated in a variety of food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Smart Base Ltd.
    Inventors: Alejandro Marangoni, Nektarios Kranis, Saeed Ghazani
  • Patent number: 11632966
    Abstract: Industrial butter with increased hardness is suggested, obtainable or obtained by (a) separating raw milk into a skimmed milk fraction and a cream fraction; (b) while adding water, separating the cream fraction of step (a) into a milk phase and an aqueous protein-lactose phase; (c) adding hard fat to the milk phase of step (b), and homogenising it; and (d) cooling the homogenised mass while shearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH
    Inventor: Sven-Rainer Döring
  • Patent number: 11582981
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an emulsion composition that maintains emulsion stability even after high temperature process such as sterilization (heat resistance), shows a small change in particle size distribution between before and after heating, and maintains emulsion stability even under conditions where transformation of an oil phase component (for example, solidification or crystallization of the oil phase component due to temperature drop, or melting of the oil phase component due to temperature rise) occurs (temperature drop resistance), wherein the composition is easily handled during the production process. The object is solved by an oil-in-water emulsion composition containing solid particles, a predefined surfactant, an oil phase component, and an aqueous phase component, wherein the oil phase component includes a predefined oil component and the solid particles are distributed along the interface between the oil phase component and the aqueous phase component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minako Hanasaki, Tsutashi Matsuura, Tetsuo Kasai, Tatsushi Isojima
  • Patent number: 11576392
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ripening chamber and a method for fruit ripening. In particular, the present invention relates to a banana ripening chamber and a method for the artificial ripening of bananas (banana ripening technique). In a method according to the invention for ripening fruits, bananas, a respiration of the fruits is measured in a closed chamber containing the fruits to be ripened. A ripening chamber according to the invention is adapted to carry out a method according to the invention for ripening fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: EINENKEL/WIRTH GBR
    Inventor: Valdir De Bortoli
  • Patent number: 11576410
    Abstract: A method is described of using a surface-reacted calcium carbonate as an extrusion aid for the production of a puffed polysaccharide-based material, excluding fibrillated cellulose-containing materials. In embodiments, the surface-reacted calcium carbonate is a reaction product of ground natural calcium carbonate (GNCC) or precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) with carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventor: Tanja Budde
  • Patent number: 11576404
    Abstract: Isoflavone-supplemented milk replacers fed to young animals during a pre-weaning provides isoflavones in the milk replacer at a level of about 700 mg per kilogram of the milk replacer, and/or provides about 450 mg of the supplemental isoflavone in at least about 1.5 pounds of the milk replacer by dry weight such that the animal ingests this amount of the isoflavone per day, and/or provides in the milk replacer at least about 50 mg of isoflavone per pound of the animal's birth weight is ingested per day. In response to ingesting the isoflavone-supplemented milk replacer, the young animal experiences improved performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Purina Animal Nutrition LLC
    Inventor: Bill L. Miller
  • Patent number: 11578194
    Abstract: A thickening composition contains xanthan gum having per 100 parts by weight thereof, at least 0.5 parts by weight or more of metal salt bound on the surface of xanthan gum powder. This thickening composition is capable of convenient viscosity development by addition to water-containing objects. Thus, the thickening composition is suitable for use in, for example, food applications for convenient thickening of soft drinks, basting, sauce, dressing, soup, mousse, jelly, or the like, or application for viscosity development by addition of a small amount thereof to meals for patients having difficulty in mastication/swallowing, for example due to eating disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Seko, Tomohiro Kimura, Shuji Nishikawa, Yohei Taniyama
  • Patent number: 11571003
    Abstract: Stabilized oils including an edible oil and an antioxidant composition comprising c?-lipoic acid and least one of ascorbic acid, ascorbyl palmitate, green tea extract, lecithin, and rosemary extract or at least one of 1,2,4-benzenetriol, carnosic acid, dihydromyricetin, dihydrorobinetin, epigallocatechin, gallic acid, 3-hydroxytyrosol, myricetin, and nepodin, and methods of preparing such stabilized edible oils. The stabilized oils may have an Oxidative Stability Index (“OSI”) at 110° C. of at least 30 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven L. Hansen, Diliara Iassonova, Gregg Louis Perri, Ying Joy Zhong
  • Patent number: 11540545
    Abstract: Method for enhancing a food item by apply a hypoallergenic, plant-based vegan dressing by combining water with a hypoallergenic-substrate, and at least one or more of sunflower seed butter and/or coconut cream. The resulting dressing is then subjected to a preservation process. In an alternative method, the resulting dressing is also inoculated in order to reduce its pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MILL IT, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Myers, William Myers
  • Patent number: 11540536
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for preserving a plant material. The method comprises applying a composition comprising a microwave attractant to the plant material; and then drying the plant material while exposing the plant material to microwave energy, wherein the microwave energy heats the plant material to a temperature effective to inactivate the majority of any browning enzymes in the plant material, and wherein the microwave attractant results in the heating of the plant material occurring at a rate whereby browning of the plant material by the browning enzymes during heating is substantially prevented. Also disclosed are uses of the preserved plant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: BOTANICAL FOOD COMPANY PTY LTD.
    Inventors: David Adrian Lewis, Deborah Ann Lewis
  • Patent number: 11503850
    Abstract: A mayonnaise product in which the oil phase includes a combination of medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil and a saturated fat such as butter oil, coconut oil, or palm oil, and further in combination with a high oleic oil. The MCT and high oleic oil reduces crystallization of the saturated fat when cooled, and consequently this improves emulsion stability. The oil phase preferably comprises at least about 70 or 75% saturated fat and less than 7%, 10% or 15% linoleic acid (omega-6), which provides exceptionally high resistance to lipid oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Fresh Twist Foods
    Inventor: Dan Steinberg
  • Patent number: 11490629
    Abstract: The methods and products disclosed herein relate to high solids concentrated dairy liquids that remain retort and shelf stable for an extended shelf life at ambient conditions with substantially no negative flavor notes typically found in the prior retorted dairy liquids. In one aspect, the stable concentrated dairy liquids have up to about 50 percent total solids, and in some approaches, between about 38 and about 50 percent total solids. In another aspect, the high solids concentrated dairy liquids may also include increased levels of sugar relative to the dairy solids and/or increased levels of sugar relative to the protein and fat to aid in achieving stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventors: Anthony William Criezis, Bruce E. Campbell, Lisa Ann Dierbach, Nicholas J. Mendoza, Sarita V. Porbandarwala, Gavin M. Schmidt, Gregory Aaron Wiseman
  • Patent number: 11457644
    Abstract: An emulsion comprising water, vegetable oil, and an emulsifying agent comprising at least 20 wt. % of soluble native rapeseed protein isolate comprising 40 to 65 wt. % cruciferins and 35 to 60 wt. % napins and having a solubility of at least 88% over a pH range from 3 to 10 at a temperature of 23±2° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Anthonius Cornelis Van Den Burg, Gerardus Johannes Franciscus Smolders
  • Patent number: 11457645
    Abstract: The present invention includes a fat composition that contains a first refined and interesterified oil mixture and a second refined and interesterified oil mixture usable in the preparation of non-dairy food products, such as whipped food products, and syrups used for the preparation of food products, such as breads, cakes, gelatins, and custards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Team Foods Colombia S.A.
    Inventors: Adriana Cruz Serna, Claudia Guzman Corona
  • Patent number: 11445849
    Abstract: Provided are surprisingly effective methods for producing uniform, cold-brew beverages (e.g., coffee, tea, fruit juice/extract, vegetable juice/extract, etc.) having an extended shelf-life, comprising: use of non-oxygen gas mixtures comprising hydrogen (to reduce or eliminate total packaged oxygen (TPO)), use of pressure/vacuum ports in brewing and/or conditioning chambers to provide chambered vacuum and/or pressure to enhance oxygen elimination, use of continuous mixing/agitation during the final conditioning phase to provide for even particulate suspension, use of a two-phase filtration system to provide for uniform tailoring of the amount and/or size of undissolved solids, and use of jacketed brewing and/or conditioning chambers for enhanced control of temperature, extraction uniformity and conditioning. Cold-brew beverages prepared by the methods, and systems for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Big Watt Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Westplate, Lee Carter