Patents by Inventor Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld

Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld 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: 11596167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to infant formulas and follow-on formulas containing optimised amino acid profiles, in particular optimised amounts and/or ratios of phenylalanine. The formulas may contain intact proteins, hydrolysed proteins, protein fractions, free amino acids and/or a combination thereof selected based on their ability to provide the formula with an optimised amino acid profile. The present invention also relates to the administration of these formulas to infants in order to achieve balanced growth and/or development, for promoting, assisting or achieving balanced growth or development of the brain of an infant and/or the cognitive function of an infant, and may also assist in preventing or reducing the risk of obesity later in life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Johannes Bernard Van Goudoever
  • Patent number: 11389403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulae for infants comprising large lipid globules and/or lipid globules with a coating of phospholipids for rendering the growth trajectory or body development during the first year of life more similar to that observed for human milk fed infants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: N.V. NUTRICIA
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Dennis Stanley Acton, Stefanie Schoen
  • Patent number: 11376222
    Abstract: The invention relates to nutritional compositions comprising specifically designed lipid globules that are especially suited for preterm infants, small for gestational age infants and infants with retarded growth due to physical or mental stress after birth, for promoting catch-up growth and/or for use in improving body composition, improving adipose tissue distribution, decreasing visceral adipose tissue based on body weight and/or on total adipose tissue, and/or decreasing the ratio visceral adipose tissue to subcutaneous adipose tissue, in such infants, and/or providing nutrition to such infants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: N.V. NUTRICIA
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Inga Christiane Teller
  • Publication number: 20210352925
    Abstract: The present invention concerns improving sleep in infants by administering nutrition that is at least partly fermented by lactic acid producing bacteria and comprises non-digestible oligosaccharides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Houkje Bouritius, Kelly Ann Mulder, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld
  • Publication number: 20210100274
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nutritional composition for infants, in particular infant formula, follow on formula or growing up milk. The invention further relates to the prevention of dry skin in an infant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Dennis Stanley Acton, Stefanie Schoen
  • Publication number: 20200306189
    Abstract: The invention relates to nutritional compositions comprising specifically designed lipid globules that are especially suited for preterm infants, small for gestational age infants and infants with retarded growth due to physical or mental stress after birth, for promoting catch-up growth and/or for use in improving body composition, improving adipose tissue distribution, decreasing visceral adipose tissue based on body weight and/or on total adipose tissue, and/or decreasing the ratio visceral adipose tissue to subcutaneous adipose tissue, in such infants, and/or providing nutrition to such infants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Inga Christiane Teller
  • Patent number: 10548869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to infant nutrition, in particular to infant nutrition comprising special lipid globules for improvement of the fatty acid composition in brain membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: N.V. NUTRICIA
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Annemiek Lidewij Schipper, Gelske Speelmans
  • Publication number: 20190159500
    Abstract: A fermented infant formula or follow on formula for promoting a growth trajectory more similar to the growth trajectory in breast-fed infants. A fermented infant formula or follow on formula for i) promoting a balanced growth trajectory or body development in an infant and/or ii) preventing or reducing the risk of an unbalanced growth trajectory or body development in an infant. Saud formula comprises 3 to 7 g lipid/100 kcal, 1.25 to 5 g protein/100 kcal and 6 to 18 g digestible carbohydrate/100 kcal and wherein the nutritional composition comprises an ingredient fermented by lactic acid producing bacteria, and 0.05 to 1.5 wt % lactic acid based on dry weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: N.V. NUTRICIA
    Inventors: Houkje BOURITIUS, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD
  • Patent number: 10136668
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an improved balance of the essential branched chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine in infant formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Johannes Bernard Van Goudoever, Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Günther Boehm
  • Publication number: 20180310605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulae for infants comprising milk fat for rendering the growth trajectory or body development during the first year of life more similar to that observed for human milk fed infants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Dennis Stanley ACTON, Stefanie SCHOEN
  • Publication number: 20180296481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulae for infants comprising large lipid globules and/or lipid globules with a coating of phospholipids for rendering the growth trajectory or body development during the first year of life more similar to that observed for human milk fed infants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Dennis Stanley ACTON, Stefanie SCHOEN
  • Patent number: 9700568
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nutritional composition for infants and/or toddlers comprising a lipid component which has a lipid globules coated with polar lipids. The composition can be used to prevent obesity and/or improve body composition later in life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Günther Boehm, Antonie Van Baalen
  • Publication number: 20170181460
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an improved balance of the essential branched chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine in infant formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Johannes Bernard VAN GOUDOEVER, Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Günther BOEHM
  • Publication number: 20170151175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nutrition for infants and young children with particular lipid globules, resulting in programming the metabolism to an increased energy expenditure and improved mitochondrial functioning later in life when exposed to a high fat, high energy diet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Annemarie OOSTING, Francina Dorothea KODDE, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK
  • Publication number: 20170151203
    Abstract: The present invention relates to infant nutrition, in particular to infant nutrition comprising special lipid globules for improvement of the fatty acid composition in brain membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Annemiek Lidewij SCHIPPER, Gelske SPEELMANS
  • Patent number: 9649286
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of specifically designed lipid component with optimal fatty acid profile, an enhanced portion of the palmitic acid residues in the sn-2 position and present as lipid globules with a phospholipid coating for an early in life diet for improving the development of a healthy body composition, in particular prevention of obesity, later in life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Annemarie Oosting, Martine Sandra Alles
  • Publication number: 20170105445
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enteral formulations for preterm infants (e.g., preterm formulas and human milk fortifiers) containing optimised intake levels of phenylalanine for the preterm infants. It particularly relates to a preterm formulation comprising a proteinaceous composition, wherein the preterm formulation (a) comprises 2.0-2.29 g phenylalanine per 100 g protein; (b) comprises 64.00-82.29 mg phenylalanine per 100 kcal; and/or (c) provides, or is formulated to provide phenylalanine in an amount of 80-96 mg/kg body weight per day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Johannes Bernard VAN GOUDOEVER, Inga Christiane TELLER
  • Publication number: 20170086490
    Abstract: The present invention relates to infant formulas and follow-on formulas containing optimised amino acid profiles, in particular optimised amounts and/or ratios of phenylalanine. The formulas may contain intact proteins, hydrolysed proteins, protein fractions, free amino acids and/or a combination thereof selected based on their ability to provide the formula with an optimised amino acid profile. The present invention also relates to the administration of these formulas to infants in order to achieve balanced growth and/or development, for promoting, assisting or achieving balanced growth or development of the brain of an infant and/or the cognitive function of an infant, and may also assist in preventing or reducing the risk of obesity later in life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen VAN DER BEEK, Marieke ABRAHAMSE-BERKEVELD, Johannes Bernard VAN GOUDOEVER
  • Patent number: 9532966
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of specifically designed lipid component with optimal fatty acid profile, an enhanced portion of the palmitic acid residues in the sn-2 position and present as lipid globules with a phospholipid coating for an early in life diet for improving the development of a healthy body composition, in particular prevention of obesity, later in life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Annemarie Oosting, Martine Sandra Alles
  • Patent number: 9492498
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an improved balance of the essential branched chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine in infant formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Johannes Bernard Van Goudoever, Eline Marleen Van Der Beek, Marieke Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Günther Boehm