Patents by Inventor Akiva Pour-El

Akiva Pour-El has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Gellable protein
    Patent number: 3932672
    Abstract: A gellable and whippable protein is produced having characteristics exhibited by egg white protein by enzymatic treatment of a vegetable protein isolate at alkaline pH, reisolation at isoelectric pH, raising the pH thereafter, reducing the pH to about neutral and drying. The thus produced modified protein material exhibits molecular configurations similar to natural egg white protein and can be compounded and heated at about 140.degree.-190.degree.F. for about 10 minutes to form a gel and/or may be whipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1976
    Inventors: Akiva Pour-El, Thomas C. Swenson