Patents by Inventor Robert Dixon Phillips

Robert Dixon Phillips 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).

  • Method for enhancing resveratrol content of peanut compositions
    Patent number: 7666455
    Abstract: Methods for increasing the amount of resveratrol in a peanut material are provided, comprising the steps of providing a peanut kernel, size-reducing the peanut kernel, abiotically stressing the size-reduced peanut kernel, and incubating the abiotically stressed size-reduced peanut kernel under conditions capable of increasing the amount of resveratrol in the size-reduced peanut kernel. Resveratrol-enhanced peanut compositions prepared according to these methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.
    Inventors: Anna V. A. Resurreccion, Jaime L. Rudolf, Robert Dixon Phillips, Manjeet Chinnan
  • Process for producing bland, protein enriched products from grain gluten
    Patent number: 4024120
    Abstract: A bland, protein enriched product is produced by contacting crude grain gluten with a solvent containing about 70 to 100 percent ethyl acetate, 0 to 15 percent aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and 0 to 30 percent water, wherein the percentages are by weight based upon the total weight of solvent, separating the gluten from the solvent, washing the separated gluten with water, separating the washed gluten from the water and drying the washed gluten product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Miles Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Dixon Phillips