Patents by Inventor Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere
Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere 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).
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Publication number: 20160175411Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: N.V. NUTRICIAInventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa VAN LAERE, Bernardina Johanna Martina DELSING, Christopher BEERMANN, Rene John RAGGERS
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Patent number: 9247763Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of heat-treated nutritional composition having a carbohydrate fraction comprising a) 5-30 wt % of one or more monosaccharides selected from galactose, ribose and mannose; b) carbohydrates capable of providing b1) sustained release glucose and b2) rapidly available glucose; c) optionally fructose; d) glucose-containing disaccharides other than maltose and sucrose; and e) optionally sugar polyols. The invention also pertains to the use of such a heat-treated nutritional composition for controlling glucose levels in blood and/or tissue, especially for preventing and/or treating diabetics, insulin-resistance, obesity, postprandial glucose response, metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, dysfibrinolysis and/or disorders associated with major surgery or trauma.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Houkje Bouritius, Evan Abrahamse, Wynette Hermina Agnes Kiers, Chantal Severijnen, Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Robert Johan Joseph Hageman
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Publication number: 20150080297Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid nutritional composition for paediatric patients comprising beta-galacto-oligosaccharides, fructan, non-digestible alpha-glucan and hemicellulose.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Anna Christina GOEDHART, Martine Sandra Alles, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere
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Publication number: 20140106025Abstract: The invention concerns a method to treat and/or prevent childhood obesity comprising administering a nutritional composition containing fat, digestible carbohydrates and protein, wherein the protein comprises at least 25 wt. % peptides with a chain length of 2 to 30 amino acids based on dry weight of protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Christopher BEERMANN, Katrien Maria Jozefa VAN LAERE, Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Gunther BOEHM
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Patent number: 8691976Abstract: A low-glycemic available carbohydrate composition of the invention contains the following components: (i) 5-60 wt. % of one or more monosaccharides selected from monosaccharides other than glucose and fructose, in particular galactose, ribose and mannose; (ii) 15-95 wt. % of oligosaccharides having a length of 2 to 20 anhydromonose units, at least half of which are anhydroglucose units linked by non-?-1,4 bonds; these oligosaccharides preferably comprising disaccharides such as palatinose, isomaltose and trehalose and/or non-?-1,4 linked higher glucose-containing oligosaccharides; (iii) 0-45 wt. % of other available carbohydrates, such as glucose and maltodextrins. This carbohydrate composition can be part of a food composition for the treatment of diabetes, obesitas, insulin resistance, or for postprandial glucose response.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Houkje Bouritius, Mirian Lansink
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Patent number: 8637487Abstract: Indigestible oligosaccharides having a molecular weight of 450 Da to 3700 Da are used for the improvement of insulin resistance, the prevention of post-prandial glycaemic dip, and/or the decrease of the post-prandial glucose response of a meal, which is consumed within 72 hours after the consumption of the first product. The oligo-saccharides are especially galacto-oligosaccharides, and are advantageously administered a few hours prior to having the meal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventors: Hubertus Josephus Maria Van De Heijning, Houkje Bouritius, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Robert Johan Joseph Hageman
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Publication number: 20120276214Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa VAN LAERE, Bernardina Johanna Martina DELSING, Christopher BEERMANN, Rene John RAGGERS
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Publication number: 20120190643Abstract: A low-glycemic available carbohydrate composition of the invention contains the following components: (i) 5-60 wt. % of one or more monosaccharides selected from monosaccharides other than glucose and fructose, in particular galactose, ribose and mannose; (ii) 15-95 wt. % of oligosaccharides having a length of 2 to 20 anhydromonose units, at least half of which are anhydroglucose units linked by non-?-1,4 bonds; these oligosaccharides preferably comprising disaccharides such as palatinose, isomaltose and trehalose and/or non-?-1,4 linked higher glucose-containing oligosaccharides; (iii) 0-45 wt. % of other available carbohydrates, such as glucose and maltodextrins. This carbohydrate composition can be part of a foodcomposition for the treatment of diabetes, obesitas, insulin resistance, or for postprandial glucose response.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Houkje Bouritius, Mirian Lansink
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Patent number: 8227448Abstract: A nutritional composition having beneficial effect in the gastrointestinal tract, especially an anti-adhesion effect on pathogenic micro-organisms and a bifidogenic effect, contains non-digestible oligosaccharides, said oligosaccharides comprising, per daily dosage, 0.3-10 g of oligosaccharides containing at least one terminal arabinose unit. The nutritional composition may furthermore comprise 0.5-10 g of other non-digestible oligosaccharides selected from fructo-oligosaccharides, galacto-oligosaccharides, xylo-oligosaccharides and manno-oligosaccharides. The arabino-oligosaccharides can be obtained conveniently by controlled hydrolysis of arabinose-containing polysaccharides from natural (vegetable) origin.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2001Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Elmo Wissing
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Patent number: 8148350Abstract: A low-glycemic available carbohydrate composition of the invention contains the following components: (i) 5-60 wt. % of one or more monosaccharides selected from monosaccharides other than glucose and fructose, in particular galactose, ribose and mannose; (ii) 15-95 wt. % of oligosaccharides having a length of 2 to 20 anhydromonose units, at least half of which are anhydroglucose units linked by non-?-1,4 bonds; these oligosaccharides preferably comprising disaccharides such as palatinose, isomaltose and trehalose and/or non-?-1,4 linked higher glucose-containing oligosaccharides; (iii) 0-45 wt. % of other available carbohydrates, such as glucose and maltodextrins. This carbohydrate composition can be part of a food composition for the treatment of diabetes, obesitas, insulin resistance, or for postprandial glucose response.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Houkje Bouritius, Mirian Lansink
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Publication number: 20100317573Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid nutritional composition for paediatric patients comprising beta-galacto-oligosaccharides, fructan, non-digestible alpha-glucan and hemicellulose.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Anna Christina Goedhart, Martine Sandra Alles, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere
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Publication number: 20100075900Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing and/or treating visceral adiposity by administering a certain nutritional composition to an infant with the age between 0 and 36 months, and preventing the occurrence of diseases later in life.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Renate Maria Louise Zwijsen, Hubertus Josephus Maria Van De Heijning, Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Günther Boehm
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Publication number: 20090215718Abstract: A low-glycemic available carbohydrate composition of the invention contains the following components: (i) 5-60 wt. % of one or more monosaccharides selected from monosaccharides other than glucose and fructose, in particular galactose, ribose and mannose; (ii) 15-95 wt. % of oligosaccharides having a length of 2 to 20 anhydromonose units, at least half of which are anhydroglucose units linked by non-?-1,4 bonds; these oligosaccharides preferably comprising disaccharides such as palatinose, isomaltose and trehalose and/or non-?-1,4 linked higher glucose-containing oligosaccharides; (iii) 0-45 wt. % of other available carbohydrates, such as glucose and maltodextrins. This carbohydrate composition can be part of a foodcomposition for the treatment of diabetes, obesitas, insulin resistance, or for postprandial glucose response.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Houkje Bouritius, Mirian Lansink
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Publication number: 20090203592Abstract: The invention concerns a method to treat and/or prevent childhood obesity comprising administering a nutritional composition containing fat, digestible carbohydrates and protein, wherein the protein comprises at least 25 wt. % peptides with a chain length of 25 to 30 amino acids based on dry weight of protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2006Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Christopher Beermann, Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Günther Boehm
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Publication number: 20090011990Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of heat-treated nutritional composition having a carbohydrate fraction comprising a) 5-30 wt % of one or more monosaccharides selected from galactose, ribose and mannose; b) carbohydrates capable of providing b1) sustained release glucose and b2) rapidly available glucose; c) optionally fructose; d) glucose-containing disaccharides other than maltose and sucrose; and e) optionally sugar polyols. The invention also pertains to the use of such a heat-treated nutritional composition for controlling glucose levels in blood and/or tissue, especially for preventing and/or treating diabetics, insulin-resistance, obesity, postprandial glucose response, metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, dysfibrinolysis and/or disorders associated with major surgery or trauma.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Houkje Bouritius, Evan Abrahamse, Wynette Hermina Kiers, Chantal Severijnen, Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Robert Johan Hageman
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Publication number: 20080274945Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2004Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Bernardina Johanna Martina Delsing, Christopher Beermann, Rene John Raggers
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Patent number: 7422764Abstract: A liquid edible composition with a pH of more than 6, a viscosity below 600 mPas at a shear rate of 100s-1 and 20° C., and a viscosity of at least 125% of the aforementioned viscosity at a pH below 5 and a temperature of 37° C., the composition comprising at least 0.05 wt. % of pectin having a degree of methoxylation between 2 and 50 and/or of alginate; at least 5 mg calcium per 100 ml; and at least 0.1 wt. % indigestible oligosaccharide having a degree of polymerisation between 2 and 60. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for the treatment or prevention of overweight or obesity in mammals, the method comprising the enteral administration to a mammal of an effective amount of the aforementioned composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Peter Antonio Navarro y Koren, Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Maria Elisabeth Hermien de Lange, Marcel Minor
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Patent number: 6989166Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the treatment and/or prevention of overweight in a monogastric mammal. More particularly, the invention is concerned with such a method comprising administering to the mammal a liquid edible composition with a pH of more than 5, a viscosity below 50 mPas at a shear rate of 100s?1 and 20° C., and a viscosity of at least 125% of the aforementioned viscosity at a pH 3 and a temperature of 37° C.; and with a caloric density between 0 and 500 kcal per liter, the composition comprising: between 0.01 and 5 wt. % of one or more polysaccharides selected from the group consisting of pectin and alginate; and between 0.01 and 3 wt.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Frederik Gerhard Johan Te Hennepe, Maria Elisabeth Hermien De Lange, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Peter Antonio Navarro Y Koren
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Patent number: 6884445Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a liquid edible composition with a pH of more than 6, a viscosity below 600 mPas at a shear rate of 100s?1 and 20° C., and a viscosity of at least 125% of the aforementioned viscosity at a pH below 5 and a temperature of 37° C., the composition comprising at least 0.05 wt. % of pectin having a degree of methoxylation between 2 and 50 and/or of alginate; at least 5 mg calcium per 100 ml; and at least 0.1 wt. % indigestible oligosaccharide having a degree of polymerisation between 2 and 60. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for the treatment or prevention of overweight or obesity in mammals, said method comprising the enteral administration to a mammal of an effective amount of the aforementioned composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: N.V. NutriciaInventors: Peter Antonio Navarro Y Koren, Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Maria Elisabeth Hermien De Lange, Marcel Minor
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Publication number: 20040258826Abstract: A liquid edible composition with a pH of more than 6, a viscosity below 600 mPas at a shear rate of 100s-1 and 20° C., and a viscosity of at least 125% of the aforementioned viscosity at a pH below 5 and a temperature of 37° C., the composition comprising at least 0.05 wt. % of pectin having a degree of methoxylation between 2 and 50 and/or of alginate; at least 5 mg calcium per 100 ml; and at least 0.1 wt. % indigestible oligosaccharide having a degree of polymerisation between 2 and 60. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for the treatment or prevention of overweight or obesity in mammals, the method comprising the enteral administration to a mammal of an effective amount of the aforementioned composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Peter Antonio Navarro Y Koren, Katrien Maria Jozefa van Laere, Maria Elisabeth Hermien de Lange, Marcel Minor