Patents by Inventor Grant Lee Crilly

Grant Lee Crilly 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).

  • Cryo-shucking of oysters
    Patent number: 8870633
    Abstract: A cryogen-blanching technique involves brief exposure of an oyster shell to a cryogen. The cryo-blanching weakens the oyster's muscles that close the bivalve tightly shut, but preserves the natural condition of the bulk of the oyster meat. The weakening of the oyster's holding muscles allows shucking the oyster meat in its fresh or natural state without damage or shell fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet, Grant Lee Crilly, Nathan P. Myhrvold
  • CRYO-SHUCKING OF OYSTERS
    Publication number: 20140051341
    Abstract: A cryogen-blanching technique involves brief exposure of an oyster shell to a cryogen. The cryo-blanching weakens the oyster's muscles that close the bivalve tightly shut, but preserves the natural condition of the bulk of the oyster meat. The weakening of the oyster's holding muscles allows shucking the oyster meat in its fresh or natural state without damage or shell fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet, Grant Lee Crilly, Nathan P. Myhrvold
  • Cryo-shucking of oysters
    Patent number: 8480459
    Abstract: A cryogen-blanching technique involves brief exposure of an oyster shell to a cryogen. The cryo-blanching weakens the oyster's muscles that close the bivalve tightly shut, but preserves the natural condition of the bulk of the oyster meat. The weakening of the oyster's holding muscles allows shucking the oyster meat in its fresh or natural state without damage or shell fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventors: Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Grant Lee Crilly
  • CRYO-SHUCKING OF OYSTERS
    Publication number: 20130109285
    Abstract: A cryogen-blanching technique involves brief exposure of an oyster shell to a cryogen. The cryo-blanching weakens the oyster's muscles that close the bivalve tightly shut, but preserves the natural condition of the bulk of the oyster meat. The weakening of the oyster's holding muscles allows shucking the oyster meat in its fresh or natural state without damage or shell fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet, Grant Lee Crilly, Nathan P. Myhrvold
  • Food servings with cooked tender flesh and crispy skins
    Publication number: 20120082770
    Abstract: Cooked meat servings have puffed, crunchy skins surrounding tender and succulent flesh portions. Entire meat pieces including the flesh portions and the skin portions covering or encasing the flesh portions are cooked in a manner that leaves neither portion under- or over-cooked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet, Grant Lee Crilly, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Christopher Charles Young, M.G. Johnny Zhu