Patents by Inventor Gerhard Niederreiter

Gerhard Niederreiter 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).

  • CREAMER COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160198731
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for providing creamer compositions with enhanced coffee taste and/or coffee aromas. In addition the invention relates to the use of such creamer compositions in coffee mixes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Martine Daenzer-Alloncle, Cedric Dubois, Kevan Elsby, Lennart Fries, Mathieu Murith, Gerhard Niederreiter, Matthieu Pouzot, Marija Srbljin
  • COFFEE SCENTING
    Publication number: 20150374006
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for transferring an aroma from a aroma providing substance to a an aroma-adsorbing substance by a gas flow and without the aroma-providing substance and the aroma-adsorbing substance getting in direct contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Matthieu POUZOT, Alessandro GIANFRANCESCO, Mathieu MURITH, Gerhard NIEDERREITER, Christoph REH
  • CONFECTIONERY PRODUCT COMPRISING AGGLOMERATED OIL POWDER
    Publication number: 20150157040
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of oil powder and milk powders for the preparation of solid confectionery products wherein the oil powder is granulated together with the milk powder and other powder ingredients and then pressure agglomerated; to solid confectionery products comprising pressure agglomerated powder ingredients including an oil powder and a milk powder, wherein the oil powder comprises an inner core comprising an oil and an outer shell comprising a cross-linked emulsifier and to processes for the preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Tim Oliver Althaus, Daniel Johannes Dopfer, Gerhard Niederreiter
  • CHOCOLATE PRODUCT WITH TROPICALISED SHELL
    Publication number: 20140322391
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a chocolate product with a tropicalized shell comprising chocolate and a humectant liquid and a non-tropicalised chocolate core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Tim Oliver Althaus, Stefan Palzer, Gerhard Niederreiter, Helen Chisholm, Nicolas Bovet
  • Method for preparing a beverage from a beverage powder and apparatus for implementing the method
    Patent number: 8802172
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing a beverage from a soluble beverage powder comprising the steps of: —metering a dose of the soluble beverage powder, —heating the soluble beverage powder dose, —diluting the heated soluble beverage powder dose with a diluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Alejandro Marabi, Jean-Marc Coudene, Gerhard Niederreiter, Johanna Claude
  • CONFECTIONERY PRODUCT COMPRISING AGGLOMERATED OIL POWDER
    Publication number: 20140141147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid confectionery product comprising pressure agglomerated powder ingredients, wherein said powder ingredients comprise an oil powder, the use of an oil powder for the preparation of a solid confectionery product, and processes for the preparation of a solid confectionery product compacting or shaping the ingredients including an oil powder by a pressure agglomeration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Daniel Johannes Dopfer, Tim Oliver Althaus, Judith Arfsten, Stefan Palzer, Gerhard Niederreiter, Baltasar Valles-Pamies, James William Outram
  • FROZEN CONFECTIONERY WITH AERATED COATING
    Publication number: 20130052308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aerated chocolate-based coatings for frozen confectioneries. In particular, it relates to a composite frozen confection fully coated with a chocolate-based composition having a density comprised between 0.13 and 1.29 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Stefan Palzer, Werner Bauer, Helen Chisholm, Gerhard Niederreiter, Nicolas Bovet
  • METHOD FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE FROM A BEVERAGE POWDER AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20120201937
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing a beverage from a soluble beverage powder comprising the steps of: —metering a dose of the soluble beverage powder,—heating the soluble beverage powder dose,—diluting the heated soluble beverage powder dose with a diluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Alejandro Marabi, Jean-Marc Coudene, Gerhard Niederreiter, Johanna Claude
  • IMPROVEMENT OF COLD LIQUID SOLUBILITY OF FAT-CONTAINING POWDERS
    Publication number: 20100239714
    Abstract: A fat-containing powder according to the present invention comprises up to 50% fat, whereby the fat surface of the powder particles is associated with a particulate flowing agent
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Gerhard Niederreiter, Peter Zeltner, Heinz Wyss