Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lars S. Johnson
  • Method for preparing a puffed grain food product and a puffed grain food product
    Patent number: 6805888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a puffed grain food product having a mixture of puffable low expansion grain and puffable high expansion grain. Flavoring agents, coloring agents or mixtures thereof are absorbed into the puffable low expansion grain pieces. The treated puffable low expansion grain pieces are then mixed with the puffable high expansion grain pieces, placed in a mold, and puffed to form an edible puffed grain food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Rei-Young Amos Wu
  • &bgr;-Glucan process, additive and food product
    Patent number: 6749885
    Abstract: The method for abstracting high levels of &bgr;-glucan from a grain product such as oat or barley grain to produce a &bgr;-glucan product containing at least about 18% by weight &bgr;-glucan is provided. The &bgr;-glucan product can be produced as an agglomerated food additive having at least about 18% by weight &bgr;-glucan. Methods are provided for enriching a food product with the &bgr;-glucan agglomerated food additive to produce an enriched resulting food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Quaker Oats/Rhone-Poulenc Partnership
    Inventors: Anthony P. Cahill, Jr., Douglas J. Fenske, Mark Freeland, Gene W. Hartwig
  • Automated data collection reporting and analysis system for industrial production
    Patent number: 6681197
    Abstract: An automated system and method for developing an increased level of associate accountability in a production process by obtaining a performance projection from the associate, inputting this projection data into a computer system, obtaining and inputting actual performance data into the system and utilizing the system to compare the associate's projected performance to the associate's actual performance. The system and method of the present invention provides timely, objective and quantitative feedback to the production process associate. This feedback is subsequently used as a pay for performance incentive program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Brunner, Craig A. Smith
  • Puffed food starch product
    Patent number: 6676983
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of making a puffed food starch material snack, in particular starch material from grains, having an improved crispy texture and a more aesthetic appearance. The products may be snack chips, cakes, crackers or the like, made from food starch material. Preferably, the starch material is provided primarily in the form of individual kernels or pellets of a cereal grain, such as rice, corn, wheat, rye, oats, millet, sorghum, barley, buckwheat, or mixtures thereof. Quantities of other food starch materials may also be employed as a co-mixed constituent, or the primary source of bulk starch material, for example potato starch material. A quantity of the grain is puffed (expanded) in a manner which forms a snack product of considerable crispiness, lightness, and unique texture to both the mouth and eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Jacque L. Malfait
  • Corn milling and separating device and method
    Patent number: 6409105
    Abstract: A table separator is provided, wherein the table separator comprises a plurality of solid-bottomed trays and a plurality of dimples for facilitating separation of degerminated corn into endosperm and germ fraction, the dimples being aligned in linear juxtaposition on the surface of the trays and having a center portion raised with respect to the perimeter of the dimples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: John Griebat, Alan Koechner
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    Patent number: D457056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventor: Salvatore Ranchetti
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    Patent number: D457060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Bretz, Jeffrey Lichtman, John L. Konieczka
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    Patent number: D457065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Suppayan M. Krishnakumar, Jeff Lichtman, Jeffrey L. Pattee, David P. Piccioli, Christopher D. Rowe, Tia-Maria Smith
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    Patent number: D458541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Steiger, Larry M. Taylor, Sheldon E. Yourist
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    Patent number: D461130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Bretz, Susan L. Colten, Rachel Orland, Jeffrey L. Pattee, Susan Vanderwiel, David Piccioli, Bradley L. Allen, Bryce Rutter, William Scott Portzline
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    Patent number: D461412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Bretz, Jeffrey Lichtman, John L. Konieczka
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    Patent number: D461418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lichtman, Susan L. Colten, John Bretz, David P. Piccioli, Suppayan M. Krishnakumar, Wayne N. Collette
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    Patent number: D464263
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy M. White, Terry E. Kubitz, Gary L. Berge
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    Patent number: D471452
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Bretz, Susan L. Colten, Rachel Orland, Jeffrey L. Pattee, Susan Vanderwiel, David Piccioli, Bradley L. Allen, Bryce Rutter, William Scott Portzline
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    Patent number: D472470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bretz, Teri Weisheim, David Piccioli, Suppayan Krishnakumar
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    Patent number: D488719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Evans, Susan L. Colten, Arla Gomberg, LaTres Jarrett, Stephen R. Kline
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    Patent number: D488722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Evans, Susan L. Colten, Arla Gomberg, LaTres Jarrett, Stephen R. Kline
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    Patent number: D488723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Evans, Susan L. Colten, Arla Gomberg, LaTres Jarrett, Stephen R. Kline
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    Patent number: D497545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Knight, Machelle D. Stockwell, Kenneth R. Diveley, Stuart Leslie, Tomohito Asano
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    Patent number: D497549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Tropicana Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Will Maskell, Karen Dalton, Steve Andrews, Machelle D. Stockwell, Armel Archeny