Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gerard J. McGowan
  • Blends of isoflavones and flavones
    Patent number: 6617349
    Abstract: Blends of quercetin and isoflavones from the group consisting of genestein, daidzein and glycetin display synergistic effects when applied as anti-inflammatory agent or as skin agent in particular for anti ageing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Richard Green, Anne Hailes, Maria Catherine Tasker, Paula Rachel Yates
  • Methods for modulating flavonoid content in tomato by transformation with a chalcone isomerase DNA
    Patent number: 6608246
    Abstract: A method for manipulating the production of flavonoids in tomatoes by expressing genes encoding chalcone isomerase, compositions for use in such a method and tomato plants having altered flavonoid levels are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaud Guillaume Bovy, Stephen Glyn Hughes, Shelagh Rachael Muir, Adrianus Joannes Van Tunen, Martine Elisa Verhoeyen, Cornelis Henricus De Vos
  • Frozen low-fat food emulsions
    Patent number: 6607775
    Abstract: Frozen low-fat food emulsions comprise a continuous aqueous phase and a dispersed phase which comprises fat particles, gel particles and fat-soluble flavour molecules; substantially all of the fat particles are located within the gel particles, and at least 35% of the flavour molecules are located in a plurality of the gel particles. The rate of release of the flavour molecules from the frozen emulsion is delayed, thereby imparting the taste of a full-fat emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Aldred, Ingrid Anne Appelqvist, Charles Rupert Brown, Jennifer Elizabeth Homan, Malcolm Glyn Jones, Mark Emmett Malone, Ian Timothy Norton, Jeffrey Underdown
  • Lip-lock carton for powders
    Patent number: 6604676
    Abstract: A carton having a lid lock comprising a lip or flap extending from a liner and a debossment, embossment or opening in a panel forming the cover. The debossment, embossment or opening receives and/or limits the motion of the lip to lock closed the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward John Giblin
  • Use of prenylated flavones
    Patent number: 6589982
    Abstract: Flavones with an isoprenyl group in the 8-position possess very good anti-inflammatory properties and can also be used to treat/prevent/cure skin-disorders when applied in food compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Donovan, Martin Richard Green, Maria Catherine Tasker, Paula Rachel Yates
  • Pourable water and oil containing emulsions comprising gas bubbles
    Patent number: 6589587
    Abstract: The invention relates to pourable water and oil containing emulsions comprising an aqueous phase and gas bubbles, whereby said gas bubbles are substantially dispersed in the aqueous phase. Emulsions according to the invention show increased stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Benjamins, Jochen Effey, Eckhard Floeter, Rowdy van Gelder
  • Food product comprising gas bubbles
    Patent number: 6579557
    Abstract: The invention relates to food products comprising an aqueous phase and gas bubbles, whereby said gas bubbles are substantially dispersed in the aqueous phase, and whereby said gas bubbles have a mean diameter size distribution with a maximum below 10 &mgr;m and whereby said aqueous phase comprises a compound capable of forming at least a partial coating around said gas bubbles. Food products are for example cheese, frying fats, dressings, margarines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Benjamins, Jacobus Van Eendenburg, Eckhard Floeter, Jan P Van Iersel, Karel Abraham Kuypers, Eddie G Pelan
  • Dispensing for dryer
    Patent number: 6574883
    Abstract: A dispenser for laundry products, particularly for fabric softener products to be used in the dryer. The dispenser comprises a hollow ball having a plurality of product dispensing openings and a further product ingress opening for placing product in the ball. A measuring cup to hold product is accessed from the product ingress opening. In accordance with one preferred embodiment, the measuring cup includes only a single opening in its side wall for releasing product from the cup and into the hollow sphere. One or more closures are associated with the dispenser. After travelling through the small hole in the cup, the product is dispensed to the exterior of the hollow ball through the product dispensing openings and thus onto product. The hollow ball is preferably a manually squeezable plastic such as polyurethane. In another embodiment, the cup includes more than the single hole in the cup walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Corrine Saso, Ramon E. Poo
  • Ice confection
    Patent number: 6565908
    Abstract: An ice confection comprising an antifreeze protein, wherein &Dgr; modulus/original modulus ≧0.4, and/or &Dgr; strength/original strength ≧0.4; providing that when &Dgr; modulus/original modulus ≦6.0, &Dgr; modulus ≧50 MPa, and/or when &Dgr; strength/original strength ≦2.0, &Dgr; strength ≧0.2 MPa. Such ice confections have a strong, close-packed continuous network of ice crystals and can be used to manufacture products having novel textures, properties and/or shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Daniel, Andrew Hoddle, Anabela Jones, Jon Richard Oldroyd, Scott Singleton
  • Dosing device
    Patent number: 6543259
    Abstract: A device for dosing rinse conditioner to a drum of a washing machine comprises three chambers connected in series to an interior of a drum of a washing machine. The first chamber receives the composition prior to a start of the wash cycle and includes an outlet through which the composition is transferred to a holding chamber under centrifugal forces generated during a first spin cycle. During a second spin cycle the treatment composition is similarly transferred from the holding chamber to a dispensing chamber from which the composition is delivered onto the fabrics upon completion of the second spin cycle. A washing process employing the device of the invention is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Robertson Sherratt, Mark Shickle
  • Carton
    Patent number: 6533165
    Abstract: Tablets and other relatively fragile consumer products can be transported in a carton with little or no compromise to their integrity by providing bottom flaps of the carton with slits for cushioning the carton. Preferably, at least two adjacent flaps include the slits. Instead of slits, perforated lines or non-linear lines can be used. However, in a preferred embodiment, the carton is a corrugated carton and the slits run parallel to the lines of corrugation. More preferably, the corrugation includes troughs and the slits are imposed in the fiberboard parallel to and opposite the troughs of the corrugations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Corinne Saso, Jeannine Desmond Griffiths, Richard Chalmers
  • Device for machine washing of clothes
    Patent number: 6523371
    Abstract: A dispensing device for the machine washing of laundry comprises a receptacle for receiving an amount of detergent product having filling opening means and a body wall which includes a plurality of apertures for dispensing detergent product. The device includes a rigids spacing means which is formed around the body wall for spacing laundry from the dispensing apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Robertson Sherratt, Mark Shickle
  • Water and oil containing emulsion
    Patent number: 6517884
    Abstract: The invention relates to a food product comprising 0.1 to 1.5 wt % of one or more anti-spattering agents comprising no native soy lecithin or native soy lecithin in an amount of from 0 to 0.05 wt % on total product, whereby the anti-spattering agent is preferably selected from the group comprising hydrolyzed lecithin, fractionated lecithin, citric acid esters or combinations thereof; optionally one or more emulsifiers in a total amount of from 0 to 0.5 wt %; optionally one or more browning agents in a total amount of from 0 to 0.07 wt %; one or more salts in an amount of from 0.5 to 3 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Bauer-Plank, Ton Van Den Berg, Frank Van Dieren, Juergen Heinz Fabian, Isabella Christina De Vries
  • Ice confection
    Patent number: 6503548
    Abstract: The method of adding an antifreeze protein to an ice confection to restrict the flow of flavor or color ions or molecules present as either solutes or a dispersion, wherein the ice confection contains no protein other than the antifreeze protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Daniel, Ian Lacy, Jon Richard Oldroyd
  • Method for the preparation of an aerated frozen product
    Patent number: 6497913
    Abstract: Using an homogenizer operating at higher pressures (ca. 2000 bar) than those conventionally used in ice cream manufacturing, it is possible to generate smaller oil droplet sizes (ca. 0.3 &mgr;m) in an ice cream premix. It allows stabilization of a larger air:water interface, leading to smaller discrete gas cells which in turn modify the organoleptic quality of the ice cream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Good Humor - Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Jane Gray, Susan Turan
  • Method of manufacturing a sterol ester mixture
    Patent number: 6492538
    Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a mixture of fatty acid esters comprising the steps of: (a) hydrolysing a sterol ester or a mixture of sterol esters such that a mixture is obtained comprising phenolic acids and/or fatty acids, and free sterols; and (b) optionally, separating the phenolic acids and/or fatty from the reaction mixture; and (c) esterifying the so obtained free sterols with particular fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marnix P van Amerongen, Lourus Cornelis Lievense, Cornelis Willem Van Oosten
  • Stress crack resistant bottle
    Patent number: 6464106
    Abstract: Improved bottles for dispensing liquid household products such as liquid detergents and fabric softeners. The package is comprised of a multilayer body in which the inner layer includes polyethylene made with a metallocene catalyst. The bottles have improved stress cracks resistance yet may be lighter then traditional bottles. They may be made by blow molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Arnold Brown, Suzanne Benigni, Jeannine Desmond Griffiths, Gregory Alan Lathrop
  • Ice confection with controlled transparency
    Patent number: 6461653
    Abstract: A frozen ice confection of fixed shape is described which has its opacity controlled in relation of the temperature of the confection. The confection may also have an imbedded indicia which becomes view able as the transparency of this frozen confection increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Good-Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: David Robert Graham Cox
  • Container
    Patent number: D470054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Gerhart, Harry Hamilton Haubert, III, Robert Charles Blanc, Edward John Giblin, Gerald Ross Robinson, Anthony Jason Scott, James Earl Hiltner, Eugene Francis Haffner, George Richard Trepina
  • Spigot and collar assembly
    Patent number: D474112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Gerhart, Edward John Giblin, George Richard Trepina, Eugene Francis Haffner, Gerald Ross Robinson