Patents by Inventor Scott J. Eilert

Scott J. Eilert 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).

  • Packaging of meat products with modified atmospheres and/or enhancers
    Patent number: 7935373
    Abstract: Packaged meat products, methods of packaging meat, and systems for packaging meat. With respect to packaged meat products, one particular embodiment of a packaged meat product comprises a container having a low gas permeability and an enclosed interior volume. The packaged meat product further includes a meat product enclosed within the interior volume of the container and a modified atmosphere comprising not greater than about 10% carbon monoxide within the interior volume of the container. The meat product has a first volume less than the interior volume, and the modified atmosphere has a second volume such that a volume ratio of the second volume to the first volume is not greater than approximately 1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignees: Cargill, Incorporated, Hormel Foods, LLC
    Inventors: Ann W. Brackenridge, Curtis Cundith, Scott J. Eilert, Nancy Rathje, Barney Wilborn, David C. Ruzek, Forrest D. Dryden, Bruce C. Paterson
  • Meat enhancement system
    Patent number: 7378119
    Abstract: The present invention is an enhanced fresh meat composition and method of making the same. The fresh processed meat composition is made from post-rigor meat and includes a bicarbonate additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott J. Eilert, Curtis A. Cundith, Max England
  • Feed ration for finishing swine
    Publication number: 20040265424
    Abstract: The present invention is a feed ration and a method of improving quality of a pork belly by including hydrogenated poultry fat as part of an animal's diet. The hydrogenated poultry fat may have an iodine value of between about 30 and about 60, and may be included in the feed ration on a daily basis during the final phases of the finishing diet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas M. Hayes, Rich Gallant, Kyle Swigart, Scott J. Eilert
  • Color enhancement and stabilization in enhanced fresh meat products
    Publication number: 20040043118
    Abstract: The present invention is an enhanced fresh meat composition and method of making the same. The fresh processed meat composition is made from post-rigor meat and includes a bicarbonate additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Scott J. Eilert, Curtis J. Cundith, Max England
  • Method for removing oral cavity staining, method for processing hogs, apparatus for delivering stain removing solution, and method for reducing bacteria level in a hog carcass oral cavity
    Patent number: 5928074
    Abstract: A method for removing oral cavity staining in a hog carcass is provided by the invention. The method includes steps of providing a carcass including an oral cavity, applying an aqueous stain removing solution including an oxygen bleaching agent to the oral cavity, and removing the aqueous stain removing solution from the oral cavity. In the preferred embodiments, the aqueous stain removing solution includes an aqueous sodium percarbonate solution containing between about 1% by weight and about 8% by weight sodium percarbonate, and is provided at a pH of between about 9.5 and about 12.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Inventors: Melissa A. Schrader, Francois S. Bere, Frederick William Holzhauer, Scott J. Eilert, Jerome D. Leising