Patents Examined by Anthony J Weier
  • Methods for purifying protein
    Patent number: 11051532
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods for purifying protein, and more particularly to methods for purifying protein that minimize the development of undesirable odors and flavors in the purified protein and increase protein yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Impossible Foods Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Allen Henderson, Jr., Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Dunilka Nishani Ratnayake, Ian Guiles Ronningen, Laila Dafik
  • Separation of fat and lean using a decanter centrifuge
    Patent number: 11051534
    Abstract: Methods for separating lean and fat from beef or other meats and the separation apparatus are shown. The methods use microbiocidal fluids to reduce or eliminate possible sources of contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Julie Garwood
  • Method for processing green coffee bean
    Patent number: 11051528
    Abstract: In the penetration step, a carbon dioxide fluid is contacted to a sample of coffee green bean inside a chamber at a temperature of 28-50° C. and a pressure of 950-3,500 psi for 3-30 minutes to allow the carbon dioxide fluid to penetrate into the sample of coffee green bean. In a pressure relief step, the pressure in the chamber is reduced to normal pressure in a time period of 2-15 minutes, allowing the carbon dioxide fluid penetrated into the sample of coffee green bean to break down cell wall of the sample of coffee green bean to obtain a sample of coffee green bean with broken cell wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Yu-Ting Huang
  • Method of preparing a beverage using a beverage preparation system
    Patent number: 11033143
    Abstract: A weigh scale unit may be used in conjunction with a beverage preparation machine to prepare beverages efficiently. The weigh scale unit may provide the status of ingredient addition to a beverage receptacle. The weigh scale unit may send instructions and/or data to the beverage preparation machine. In some embodiments, the beverage preparation machine sends instructions and/or data to the weigh scale unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Island Oasis Frozen Cocktail Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Herbert, Bryan Hotaling, John Macneill, Scott Leclerc, Matthew Naples, Patrick Devine
  • Space-capsule bean roasting method and system
    Patent number: 11033042
    Abstract: In one aspect, with a sounding rocket, a space-capsule bean roasting system is placed into a sub-orbital flight path. The space-capsule bean roasting system includes a re-entry capsule. The re-entry capsule includes a bean roasting system and a payload of raw beans. The re-entry capsule re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at a specific trajectory. The re-entry heat is transferred to the bean roasting system. The payload of raw beans is roasted with the re-entry heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Anders Isaac Cavallini-Gardner, Hatem Alaa Hussein
  • Lipid powder composition comprising a salt mixture
    Patent number: 11033046
    Abstract: The present invention, in an embodiment, is a powder composition that includes 20 to 80 weight % of a triglycerides mixture and 15 to 75 weight % of a salt mixture. The triglyceride mixture, based on a total fatty acid content of the triglycerides mixture, includes: 5% to 55% lauric acid content, 2% to 30% myristic acid content, 6% to 45% palmitic acid content, and 2% to 25% stearic acid content; 15% to 45% oleic acid content, 15% or less linoleic acid content, 10% or less linolenic acid content; and less than 2% of trans fatty acids; wherein, the salt mixture includes at least 90 weight % sodium chloride, based on the total weight of the salt mixture and a remainder includes at least one of sodium citrate, disodium citrate, monosodium tartrate, or disodium tartrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Team Foods Colombia S.A.
    Inventor: Adriana Fernanda Cruz Serna
  • Roasting system with clean emissions and high thermal efficiency
    Patent number: 11013253
    Abstract: A bean roasting system includes a roasting chamber, a blower, a variable diverter and a controller. The roasting chamber, the blower and the variable diverter each is disposed at least partially within a recirculating gas flow path. The blower is configured to provide a flow stream of gas through the recirculating gas flow path. The variable diverter is configured to split the gas flow path into at least two flow paths including a treated flow path and a bypass flow path. The treated flow path includes a series arrangement of a gas heater and a catalytic converter. The variable diverter is configured to control a percentage of a flow stream of gas that is diverted into the bypass flow path. The controller is configured to activate different predetermined operating modes for the bean roasting system by controlling a state of the variable diverter and a state of the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Bellwether Coffee Co.
    Inventors: Ricardo Lopez, John Sandhu, Arno Holschuh
  • Emulsion stabilization method
    Patent number: 11006651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of cocoa particles as the emulsifier system for the stabilization of a water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsion. In another aspect there is now provided a confectionery product having cocoa particles as the emulsifying agent that does not contain any synthetic or artificial emulsifiers, and to methods for producing such confectionery product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Joselio Batista Vieira, Jwanro Husson, Bettina Wolf, Joanne Gould
  • Activated pectin-containing biomass compositions and products
    Patent number: 11008407
    Abstract: Methods for producing an activated pectin-containing biomass composition are provided. The method includes (A) mixing a starting pectin-containing biomass material having an insoluble fiber component and an insoluble protopectin component with an aqueous solution of an alcohol to form a mixture; (B) activating the starting pectin-containing biomass material to form an activated pectin-containing biomass material having the insoluble fiber component and a soluble pectin component by subjecting the starting pectin-containing biomass material to (i) an activating solution formed by adding acid to the mixture to adjust the pH of the mixture within the range from at or about 0.5 to at or about 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CP Kelco ApS
    Inventors: Jan Aae Staunstrup, Carsten Klit, Jens Eskil Trudsø, Tommy Ewi Pedersen, Donald F. Hiscock
  • Device for brewing beverages in reduced time by means of physical motion
    Patent number: 11000145
    Abstract: A device to brew beverages or otherwise extract compounds from solids into a liquid solvent, and to decrease the time necessary to accomplish such brewing or extraction, using physical motion. A method to decrease the time necessary to brew a beverage or extract compounds from solids into a liquid solvent without the necessity of adding thermal energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: Louis Ballezzi
  • Method of producing protein-containing powder
    Patent number: 11000048
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of producing a protein-containing powder including: (a) providing a protein-containing raw material; (b) freezing the protein-containing raw material at ?196° C. to ?80° C.; and (c) grinding the protein-containing raw material to obtain the protein-containing powder, wherein an average particle size of the protein-containing powder is smaller than a cell size of the protein-containing raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Korea McNulty Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Jung Lee, Il Nam Lee, Ho Jun Jeong
  • Modification of mineral composition of milk for the production of an acidified milk product
    Patent number: 10993451
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an acidified milk product including the steps of: providing a milk raw material; concentrating the milk raw material by membrane filtration to provide a filtration retentate; acidifying the filtration retentate with an acidic aqueous solution to provide an acidified filtration retentate having a pH in the range of about 5.2 to about 6.5, a calcium/protein ratio of at most about 0.03, and a phosphorous/protein ratio of at most about 0.025; processing the acidified filtration retentate to the acidified milk product having moisture on a fat-free basis of at least 70%. The invention also relates to an acidified milk product having moisture on a fat-free basis of at least 70% and a calcium/casein ratio of at most about 0.04 and a calcium/protein ratio of at most about 0.03 and a phosphorous/casein ratio of at most about 0.03.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: VALIO LTD.
    Inventors: Klaus Muuronen, Riitta Partanen
  • Rapid heatless extraction of flavors from a soluble substance, method and systems thereof
    Patent number: 10993578
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for rapid heatless extraction of flavor from a soluble by a solvent. The system includes in one or more embodiments, a brewing chamber containing a soluble and a solution chamber containing a solvent with a filter between the two chambers, and a circulation pump for moving the solvent from one chamber to the other (i.e., agitation). The circulation pump recycles the solvent between the containers to form a solution that that reaches a static equilibrium of flow to and from the brewing chamber allowing the least saturated solution to be in contact with the soluble substance. In one or more embodiments, agitation is performed by beaters, propellers, magnetic mixers, rotation of one or more chambers, or by making a slurry mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: BRRRISTA COLD BREW LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Stein
  • Method and device for applying decorative effects to a multilayered coffee surface
    Patent number: 10993577
    Abstract: In order to apply decorative effects to a multilayered coffee surface, particulary a crema, a focused air jet for drawing or writing is contactlessly guided across the surface, wherein the air jet pressure at the action point is selected to overcome the surface tension of the multilayered surface and to produce swirls between the individual layers. To carry out this method, a wand is used as a writing implement, the wand containing a compressed air source and a switching element, and a small airflow tube (9, 15, 21) protruding from the housing (1, 10, 16) of the wand as a drawing- or writing nib. The compressed air source can also be a replaceable capsule (12) filled with a compressed air. It is particularly effective if a blower (19) driven by a battery-powered electric motor (18) is accommodated in the housing (16) of the wand as a compressed air source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventor: Herbert Mock
  • Method and machine for preparing beverages
    Patent number: 10986956
    Abstract: Method and machine for preparing beverages, in particular infusions, such as coffee or tea, having a liquid supply source supplying a liquid, in particular water, an infusion chamber and an infusion circuit, which connects said supply source to said infusion chamber; the machine having an infusion circuit with a heat exchanger and a dispensing assembly, which is configured to heat the liquid at a predetermined temperature that is lower than the boiling temperature of the liquid, for example at approximately 90°, before the infusion of the liquid itself on the inside of the infusion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Eurek S.R.L.
    Inventors: Paolo Gamberini, Daniele Pasqui, Maurizio Zaccherini
  • Apple cider vinegar nutritional supplement
    Patent number: 10980265
    Abstract: Shown herein is a nutritional supplement containing apple cider vinegar (ACV), including compositions, formulations, and combinations of ingredients in the ACV nutritional supplement, as well as processes for manufacturing these supplements. The nutritional supplement can include ACV, a gelling agent such as pectin or gelatin, an oligosaccharide, a disaccharide, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Goli Nutrition Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bitensky, Nicol Korner-Bitensky, Olivia Joan Dahm, Roger Arthur Tyre, Sharon Hoffman, Deepak Agarwal
  • Apple cider vinegar nutritional supplement
    Patent number: 10980266
    Abstract: Shown herein is a nutritional supplement containing apple cider vinegar (ACV), including compositions, formulations, and combinations of ingredients in the ACV nutritional supplement, as well as processes for manufacturing these supplements. The nutritional supplement can include ACV, a gelling agent such as pectin or gelatin, an oligosaccharide, a disaccharide, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Goli Nutrition Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bitensky, Nicol Korner-Bitensky, Olivia Joan Dahm, Roger Arthur Tyre, Sharon Hoffman, Deepak Agarwal
  • Machine for brewing tea
    Patent number: 10966562
    Abstract: A machine which contains a housing (14) having a placement surface for the beverage container (13), wherein a removable brewing container (8) having a drain stub (19) and having a drain valve (10) that can be electrically or electromagnetically opened and closed is arranged in the housing (14). The actual brewing process is automatically controlled by a control unit (11). The water is pumped by a vibrating armature pump (16) through a heating system (15) and through a water outlet in the cover (4) having an integrated temperature sensor (24) through the cover (5) into the brewing container (8). A pressure sensor (12) ensures that the water is not heated above the pressure-dependent current boiling point. The control unit (11) can be programmed by means of a control panel (7) on the housing, for at least the brewing temperature, the brewing duration, and the start of a brewing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventor: Bogdan Krinitchko
  • Beverage preparation apparatus comprising a mixing chamber
    Patent number: 10966563
    Abstract: The invention concerns a beverage preparation apparatus (10), said apparatus having at least one chamber (1) for receiving and mixing an aqueous liquid and at least one soluble beverage ingredient, said chamber having: a cylindrical lateral side wall (11) having a liquid inlet (2), a bottom wall (12) having a beverage outlet (3), and wherein the liquid inlet (2) is positioned close to the bottom of the chamber, and wherein the liquid inlet (2) is configured so that the liquid is introduced in the chamber as a straight jet of liquid, and wherein said chamber includes a first bump (4) separating the bottom wall in two areas (121, 122), and wherein said chamber includes a second bump (5) rising from the bottom and lateral side walls of the chamber and presenting a shape designed to convert the jet of liquid into a swirl and to guide said swirl so that it flows along the line L in front of the liquid inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Flavien Dubief, Olivier Paillard
  • Method for controlling the concentration of single and multiple dissolved gases in beverages
    Patent number: 10961488
    Abstract: A system and method of controlling a concentration of one or more gases dissolved in a beverage is included. The system includes a saturation tank having a gas head space, a brite tank, and a beverage supply system to pass the beverage between the saturation tank and the brite tank. A beverage supersaturated with the gas from the head space is formed in the saturation tank. The supersaturated beverage is passed from the saturation tank to the brite tank. Once the amount of gas added to the beverage exceeds saturation, some of the gas escapes from solution from the beverage and the pressure in the brite tank increases. Once the pressure within the brite tank reaches a pre-defined pressure, a pump supplying the beverage to the saturation tank is shut-off and the inlet and outlet valves of the brite tank are closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventor: Gregory Scott Osborn