Patents Assigned to Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
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Patent number: 11737478Abstract: This disclosure relates for example to meat alternative compositions comprising a plant based meat alternative and a cranberry seed preparation. This disclosure is also related to methods of preparing such meat alternative compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Gayathri Balakrishnan, Mariccor Batoy, David John Ehrlinger
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Patent number: 11523628Abstract: A method for producing a fruit or vegetable product, wherein the method consists essentially of (a) infusing a whole or sliced fruit or vegetable with an infusible molecule to between 10 and 55° Brix; (b) pre-drying the whole or sliced fruit or vegetable at a temperature between 80° C. and 120° C. to produce a pre-dried fruit or vegetable; (c) exposing the pre-dried fruit or vegetable to freezing temperatures and to vacuum to a temperature between ?1° C. and ?40° C. and a pressure between 7.5 mmHg and 0.53 mmHg, thereby partially subliming the fruit or vegetable; (d) puffing the fruit or vegetable under vacuum between 0.1 mmHg and 600 mmHg at a temperature between 40° C. and 110° C.; (e) cooling the fruit or vegetable under vacuum to a temperature between 0° C. and 40° C., to thereby produce the fruit or vegetable product.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Roy, Kellie Denson, Barbara Vazquez del Mercado, Noman Khan
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Patent number: 11439161Abstract: The specification provides methods for extracting juice, anthocyanin, pectin, proanthocyanidin, and/or other phenolic compounds, from fruit material such as cranberry fruit, presscake, and/or pomace, through a sequential extraction procedure.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Roy, Ryan Moriarty, David Clancy
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Patent number: 10701959Abstract: The specification provides methods for extracting juice, anthocyanin, pectin, proanthocyanidin, and/or other phenolic compounds, from fruit material such as cranberry fruit, presscake, and/or pomace, through a sequential extraction procedure.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Roy, Ryan Moriarty, David Clancy
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Patent number: 10485254Abstract: A method for producing a fruit or vegetable product, wherein the method consists essentially of (a) infusing a whole or sliced fruit or vegetable with an infusible molecule to between 10 and 55° Brix; (b) pre-drying the whole or sliced fruit or vegetable at a temperature between 80° C. and 120° C. to produce a pre-dried fruit or vegetable; (c) exposing the pre-dried fruit or vegetable to freezing temperatures and to vacuum to a temperature between ?1° C. and ?40° C. and a pressure between 7.5 mmHg and 0.53 mmHg, thereby partially subliming the fruit or vegetable; (d) puffing the fruit or vegetable under vacuum between 0.1 mmHg and 600 mmHg at a temperature between 40° C. and 110° C.; (e) cooling the fruit or vegetable under vacuum to a temperature between 0° C. and 40° C., to thereby produce the fruit or vegetable product.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Roy, Noman Khan, Barbara Vazquez del Mercado, Kellie Denson
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Patent number: 10251413Abstract: Methods for concentrating phenolics in a solution and compositions related to the concentrated phenolics.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Lowell Vernon Dravenstadt, II, Paula Lent, Margarita Gomez, Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence E. Rose, Stephen Joseph Nojeim, Christopher McNamara, James Johnson
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Patent number: 10004242Abstract: The present specification provides, e.g., processes for infusing food bodies with infusion formulations, including long chain molecules such as soluble corn fiber, and provides food products infused with such formulations. Also provided are infusion formulations for performing such methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Roy, Kellie Denson, Harold L. Mantius
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Patent number: 9895341Abstract: Therapeutic use of extracts containing proanthocyanidin including treating disorders, e.g., inflammatory disorders, e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, indeterminate colitis, microscopic colitis, collagenous colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. Methods of increasing a subject's immunological resistance to an infection and/or treating the infection. The infection can be, e.g., a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. The methods can include, e.g., selecting a subject that has, or is at risk of developing, an infection, e.g., a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection, or a combination thereof; providing a composition comprising at least about 10% proanthocyanidin by weight; and administering to the subject an amount of the composition to the subject, to thereby increase a subject's immunological resistance to an infection and/or to treat the infection.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignees: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., University Of Florida Research Foundation, IncorporatedInventors: Christina Khoo, DeAnn Liska, Susan S. Percival
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Patent number: 9738732Abstract: The specification provides methods for extracting xyloglucans from fruit, especially from firm fruit such as cranberries, through a sequential extraction procedure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Martin Foster Berry
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Patent number: 9420812Abstract: A method for producing a proanthocyanidin extract is described. The method comprises: (a) providing a volume of proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock; (b) passing the proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock to an ultrafiltration feed tank; (c) filtering the material in the ultrafiltration feed tank through an ultrafiltration membrane system to fractionate the material into a proanthocyanidin-reduced permeate stream and a proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream; (d) collecting the proanthocyanidin-reduced permeate stream; and (e) passing the proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream to the ultrafiltration feed tank until the volume of proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock is exhausted and thereafter collecting the proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence E. Rose
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Patent number: 9371313Abstract: Provided are methods of producing proanthocyanidin (PAC)-containing solutions, powders, and beverages, as are PAC-containing solutions, powders, and beverages produced thereby and cranberry plant material products.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Geoffrey Woolford, Stanley Thompson Michalski, Lawrence E. Rose, Christina Khoo, Rodney Arthur Serres, Stephen Joseph Nojeim, Martin Foster Berry, Caroline Hennigar Vogel
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Patent number: 9351518Abstract: Methods for concentrating phenolics in a solution and compositions related to the concentrated phenolics are provided. In particular, methods and compositions are described relating to concentrated phenolics obtained from cranberry feedstock extracts combined with fumaric acid as beverage additives. Additionally, methods for obtaining phenolics from feedstocks using resin absorbtion and elution are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Lowell Vernon Dravenstadt, Paula Lent, Margarita Gomez, Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence Rose, Stephen Joseph Nojeim, Christopher McNamara, James Johnson
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Patent number: 9314494Abstract: A composition prepared from a cranberry hull enzyme-treated composition which reduces or inhibits the adhesion of microorganisms to cells having ?-Gal-(1-4)-Gal terminal oligosaccharide receptors for adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Ocean Spray Cranberries, IncInventors: Arland T. Hotchkiss, Alberto Nunez, Christina Khoo, Gary D. Strahan
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Patent number: 9226520Abstract: A method for producing a proanthocyanidin extract is described. The method comprises: (a) providing a volume of proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock; (b) passing the proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock to an ultrafiltration feed tank; (c) filtering the material in the ultrafiltration feed tank through an ultrafiltration membrane system to fractionate the material into a proanthocyanidin-reduced permeate stream and a proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream; (d) collecting the proanthocyanidin-reduced permeate stream; and (e) passing the proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream to the ultrafiltration feed tank until the volume of proanthocyanidin-containing liquid feedstock is exhausted and thereafter collecting the proanthocyanidin-enriched retentate stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence E. Rose
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Patent number: 9215885Abstract: The specification provides methods for extracting proanthocyanidins, especially from firm fruit such as cranberries, through a sequential extraction procedure, and producing infused fruit products.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventor: Harold L. Mantius
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Patent number: 9113655Abstract: Methods for concentrating phenolics in a solution and compositions related to the concentrated phenolics are provided In particular, methods and compositions are described relating to concentrated phenolics obtained from cranberry feedstock extracts combined with fumaric acid as beverage additives Additionally, methods for obtaining phenolics from feedstocks using resin absorption and elution are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Lowell Vernon Dravenstadt, Paula Lent, Margarita Gomez, Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence E. Rose, Stephen Joseph Nojeim, Christopher McNamara, James Harvey Johnson
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Patent number: D805906Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES, INC.Inventors: Phillip Napoli, Stephen R. Guerin
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Patent number: D854934Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES, INC.Inventors: Eric Falls, Toshimasa Tanaka, Shigeru Tomiyama
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Patent number: D858294Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES, INC.Inventors: Richard Boiros, Mustapha Abbaoui, Toshimasa Tanaka
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Patent number: D885922Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventor: Toshimasa Tanaka