Patents by Inventor James Citti

James Citti 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).

  • Publication number: 20060177558
    Abstract: Described are refrigerator-stable, chemically-leavened dough compositions, packaged dough products, and methods for preparing the same, wherein the dough compositions can be packaged and stored in a pressurized package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Ali El-Afandi, James Citti
  • Patent number: 6524636
    Abstract: A frozen sauce delivery system provides a sauce for a frozen food product in the form of a plurality of frozen sauce chips. Depending on the type of sauce being provided, the sauce may be formed into one or more different types of chips. Each type of chip is formed from a mixture that may include a portion of the ingredients used to form the sauce. Each mixture is then apportioned and frozen as chips. The melting temperature of the chip ingredients can be formulated to be higher than the melting temperature of the overall sauce. A plurality of each type of sauce chip is then included in a package along with frozen food items to create the frozen food product. This frozen food product may then be prepared, preferably using heat, to form a finished food dish that includes heated food items coated in the heated sauce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Clements, James Citti, Michael E. Bond
  • Patent number: 4623542
    Abstract: A high moisture, highly stable, breakfast pastry which comprises a dough shell surrounding an encased, flavored filling material. The pastry is suitable for cooking/frying, freezing, subsequent thawing, and toasting. For products of this type, this breakfast pastry has an unusually high moisture content, and because of the special composition and processing of both the shell and the interior filling, there is a unique stability at the interface of the two, which minimizes often occurring undesirable phenomena, such as moisture migration, color deterioration, dough sogginess, and flavor loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: The Pillsbury Company
    Inventors: Glenn Wallin, Diane Rosenwald, James Citti, Samuel Yong
  • Patent number: 4612198
    Abstract: A high moisture, highly stable, breakfast pastry which comprises a dough shell surrounding an encased, flavored filling material. The pastry is suitable for cooking/frying, freezing, subsequent thawing, and toasting. For products of this type, this breakfast pastry has an unusually high moisture content, and because of the special composition and processing of both the dough shell and the interior filling, there is a unique stability at the interface of the two, which minimizes often occurring undesirable phenomena, such as moisture migration, color deterioration, dough sogginess, and flavor loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: The Pillsbury Company
    Inventors: Glenn Wallin, Diane Rosenwald, James Citti, Samuel Yong
  • Patent number: 4379176
    Abstract: An icing composition which remains pliable and spreadable even at freezer conditions and yet which is also spreadable but not runny at temperatures ranging from room temperature to refrigerator storage temperatures. These characteristics are achieved by careful control of icing total fat content, sugar content, and within the total fat content, having a certain portion of the total fat content comprising liquid oil, and a certain portion comprising hydrogenated shortening, with the ratio of liquid oil:liquid oil plus hydrogenated shortening being within the range of from about 0.26 to 0.43 of oil:1 part of liquid oil plus hydrogenated shortening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: The Pillsbury Company
    Inventors: Karen Scherwitz, James Citti