Patents by Inventor Daniel L. Vance

Daniel L. Vance 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).

  • Patent number: 11937618
    Abstract: A protein-rich composition can be provided from egg albumen via a process that involves diafiltering with purified water an egg albumen concentrate. Collected retentate from the diafiltration step constitutes a protein-rich composition which, on a dry basis, can include less than 1% (w/w) lipids. The composition can be spray dried to a protein isolate solid which is substantially free of sugars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MICHAEL FOODS, INC.
    Inventors: Noel G. Rudie, Alicia Stube, Daniel L. Vance, Todd D. Bohman
  • Publication number: 20230028204
    Abstract: A method and process for providing a cooked egg product having controlled curd shapes and few fines. By mechanically manipulating (e.g., dicing) a cooked egg product only after it has been cooled below a target setting temperature, resulting curds can be provided with a more controlled, even regular, shape as well as a low percentage of fines. Also presented is an egg composition with minimal fines and curds of cooked egg. The egg composition comprises cooked liquid egg, fines with a dimension less than 2.8 mm, and curds with a diameter less than 2.5 cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: MICHAEL FOODS, INC.
    Inventors: DANIEL L. VANCE, KATIE ANN WIDI, PETER J. KOCH, DARREN D. SAFFERT, MATTHEW J. BET, WANDA P. PAINE, TODD D. BOHMAN
  • Publication number: 20200113205
    Abstract: Liquid egg yolk can be fractionated into water soluble and precipitated lipophilic fractions without the need to freeze or add carbohydrate(s). A composition that includes egg yolk and an excess of water has its pH downwardly adjusted before being gravitationally separated into low and high density fractions, with the former including no more than 5% of the granules from the egg yolk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Michael Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel G. Rudie, Alicia Stube, Daniel L. Vance
  • Publication number: 20190357570
    Abstract: A protein-rich composition can be provided from egg albumen via a process that involves diafiltering with purified water an egg albumen concentrate. Collected retentate from the diafiltration step constitutes a protein-rich composition which, on a dry basis, can include less than 1% (w/w) lipids. The composition can be spray dried to a protein isolate solid which is substantially free of sugars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Michael Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel G. Rudie, Alicia Stube, Daniel L. Vance, Todd D. Bohman
  • Patent number: 5142287
    Abstract: A system for demodulating and decoding differential phase shift keying (DPSK) transmissions utilizes a bandpass filter, an analog to digital converter and a digital signal processor. Removal of the effects of unknown frequency component is achieved by applying a complex phase correction/rotation factor after DPSK demodulation. The actual phase of the complex signal is never computed directly. All of the processing from Rader decomposition through carrier tracking filter is performed on the complex values and therefore requires only multiplication and addition operations which can be performed at high speed in a microcomputer or in dedicated arithmetic hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Allied-Signal Inc.
    Inventors: Edward F. C. LaBerge, Daniel L. Vance