Patents by Inventor Katja Hegwein

Katja Hegwein 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: 6455715
    Abstract: A method is described for producing saturated dicarboxylic acids with a chain length of C6 to C21 or the corresponding diamidic dicarboxylic acids from fatty acid cleavage of unsaturated fatty acids or the bis-fatty acid diamides of these unsaturated fatty acids by oxidative ozonolysis and subsequent separation and purification of the dicarboxylic acids, whereby after oxidative ozonolysis, the reaction products are dissolved at a high temperature in a carboxylic acid or a mixture of several carboxylic acids with a medium chain length of C6 to C12 or esters of short-chain alcohols of these carboxylic acids as the recrystallization solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Dr. Frische GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Frische, Katja Hegwein, Jürgen Volkheimer
  • Patent number: 6362368
    Abstract: A method is described for producing saturated dicarboxylic acids with a chain length of C6 to C21 or the corresponding diamidic dicarboxylic acids from fatty acid cleavage of unsaturated fatty acids or the bis-fatty acid diamides of these unsaturated fatty acids by oxidative ozonolysis and subsequent separation and purification of the dicarboxylic acids, whereby after oxidative ozonolysis, the reaction products are dissolved at a high temperature in a carboxylic acid or a mixture of several carboxylic acids with a medium chain length of C6 to C12 or esters of short-chain alcohols of these carboxylic acids as the recrystallization solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Frische GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Frische, Katja Hegwein, Jürgen Volkheimer
  • Patent number: 6265593
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for extracting hydrophobic compounds from substantially fat-, oil-, and wax-free substance mixtures by using at least one non-polar extraction solvent in conjunction with at least one water-soluble organic solvent wherein the extraction solvent containing the hydrophobic compound can be recovered as the upper phase in a phase separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Dr. Frische GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Best, Katja Hegwein, Rainer Frische, Barbara Olbrich-Deussner, Joachim Seemann
  • Patent number: 5928696
    Abstract: The extraction of native products is rendered difficult by the fact that attraction forces act between the liquid native products which are not water-soluble and the tissue incorporating them, and that other constituents are dissolved or present in the form of particles in suspension in the products during the extraction process. The initial substance mixture is, therefore, processed together with a water-soluble, organic solvent and optionally water to form a paste. The addition of the water-soluble, organic solvent enables the substance mixture to be separated cleanly into an aqueous phase and an organic phase in the centrifugal field, no further cleaning being necessary for the organic phase. The process according to the invention has a wide area of application. In principle, it can be applied to all substance mixtures containing liquid, organic substances, in particular to vegetable and animal tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Dr. Frische GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Best, Karlheinz Brunner, Katja Hegwein, Rainer Ricker, Rainer Frische