Patents Examined by Deborah Carr
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Patent number: 6897328Abstract: A single stage process for deacidifying glycerides involving: (a) providing a glyceride having an acid value of from about 5 to 20; (b) providing a lower alcohol; (c) providing an enzyme catalyst immobilized on a support material; and passing a mixture of (a) and (b), over (c), thereby deacidifying the glycerides.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Gutsche, Albrecht Weiss, Ralf Otto, Tycho Michel
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Patent number: 6888016Abstract: Our invention concerns a mixture of CLA glycerides, and/or CLA-fatty acids and or CLA-alkyl esters and another component, wherein the other component (=component A) is selected for its capacity to alleviate problems related to insulin resistance in mammals, using CLA rich diets and/or foods and/or food supplements using an appropriate in vitro test so that in at least one step of the in vitro test, as described in the text, an improvement in test results is obtained of at least 4% by the blend of the CLA derivative and component A when compared to the CLA derivative only. The inventon further concerns CLA rich dietic food, food supplements and foods containing the combination of CLA and component A as defined, while also the use of this combination for achieving an alleviation of insulin resistance is part of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Loders Croklaan USA LLCInventors: Anna Louise Brown, Frederick William Cain, Ingrid Celestina Mohede, Preyesh Parmar, Julia Sarah Rogers, Ulrike Schmid
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Patent number: 6762313Abstract: Processes for preparing linoleic acid raw materials are described wherein the processes comprise: (a) transesterifying a triglyceride component with an alcohol having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, at a temperature of from 80 to 120° C., to form a transesterification mixture comprising linoleic acid esters and one or more by-products selected from the group consisting of glycerides, free glycerol, and soaps, wherein the triglyceride component is comprised of at least 60% by weight linoleic acid; and (b) removing the one or more by-products from the transesterification mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Albert Strube, Uwe Hoemmerich, Bernhard Gutsche
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Patent number: 6759543Abstract: The invention concerns a method for extracting usaponifiable matters from a vegetable oil comprising at least a saponification step whereby the oil is transformed into a hydro alcoholic solution, a step for extracting the hydro alcoholic solution with a organic solvent such as chloro-1-butane, preferably the treated vegetable oil is avocado or soya oil.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Laboratoires ExpanscienceInventors: Sandrine Bardet, Jacques Legrand, Antoine Piccirilli
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Patent number: 6740508Abstract: Corn oil and corn meal obtained from corn are included in useful products. A method for producing fermentation-based products comprises combining corn meal with water and an enzyme, and mixing the combination with a micro-organism capable of fermenting a carbon source to produce a fermentation-based product. The corn meal is produced by cracking whole corn, conditioning the whole corn and extracting the whole corn to produce corn meal. The corn grain process generally includes the steps of cracking corn grain having a total oil content of from about 3% by weight to about 6% by weight and extracting a corn oil from the cracked corn grain.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Renessen LLCInventors: James F. Ulrich, Neal Torrey Jakel
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Patent number: 6723863Abstract: A process of producing a light-colored, high-monoester mixture from a polyol and an oil is provided wherein the process eliminates the use of organic solvents, multiple water washings and/or molecular distillation. The reactants, a polyol and an oil, described herein, condense in the presence of a catalyst, described herein, at a temperature range from about 180° C. to about 280° C. under an inert atmosphere or the vapor pressure of the polyol with a pressure of about 0 to about 500 psig to yield a monoester mixture possessing a desirable monoester composition and color. The present process yields a final product similar to that of processes which require the use of solvents, multiple water washings and/or molecular distillation.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Archer-Daniels-Midland CompanyInventors: Inmok Lee, George Poppe
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Patent number: 6720438Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of the anti-glaucoma drug Latanoprost, in good yield, in large amounts and with desired purity. Also disclosed are novel intermediates for the above process.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: FineTech Laboratories Ltd.Inventors: Arie Gutman, Gennadiy Nisnevich, Marina Etinger, Igor Zaltzman, Lev Judovich, Boris Pertsikov
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Patent number: 6713447Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for purifying marine mammal oil enriched in omega 3 fatty acids and to compositions comprising such oils. The invention also relates to a method of preparing such oils from the seal and other marine mammals. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for the transformation of subcutaneous and muscular tissues from the seal and other marine mammals. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to a process for obtaining lipid and protein extracts from the carcasses of seal and other marine mammals and to these extracts. In addition, the invention relates to fractions obtained by the methods of the present invention and to food supplements comprising same.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Universite de SherbrookeInventors: Adrien Beaudoin, Geneviève Martin
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Patent number: 6710196Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to provide a fat composition which even in long-term storage at low temperature (in a refrigeration or freezing range), has excellent cold resistance because the fat is inhibited from undergoing crystal growth, and to provide a process for producing the composition. The present inventors made intensive studies in order to accomplish the object and, as a result, they have found that a cold-resistant fat composition comprising 0.15 to 4.5% by weight of tri-saturated fatty acid glycerides based on a fat which is in a liquid state at room temperature and has 60% or more of the proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids in all the unsaturated fatty acids therein, a process for producing the same, and an oil-based food comprising as a main component of its fat component(s) the cold-resistant fat composition can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Fuji Oil CompanyInventors: Toshio Ushioda, Haruyasu Kida
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Patent number: 6703227Abstract: Corn oil and corn meal obtained from high oil corn are included in useful products. A method of producing fermentation-based products comprising combining corn meal remaining after the extraction of oil from whole high oil corn with water and an enzyme. This combination is incubated and then mixed with a micro-organism capable of fermenting a carbon source to produce fermentation-based products such as ethanol.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Renessen LLCInventors: Neal Torrey Jakel, James F. Ulrich
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Patent number: 6699851Abstract: Novel amides of polyunsaturated fatty acids with cysteamine-S-phosphate have been synthesized. Combinations of the all-trans-retinoic acid and/or amides of the 13-cis-retinoic acid with O-phospho-L-tyrosine, and N-docosahexaenoyl-cysteamine-S-phosphate, N-eicosapentaenoyl-cysteamine-S-phosphatee, N-arachidonoyl-cysteamine-S-phosphate, N-&agr;-linolenoyl-cysteamine-S-phosphate, and N-&ggr;-linolenoyl-cysteamine-S-phosphate and their analogues N-docosahexaenoyl-O-phospho-2-aminoethanol, N-eicosapentaenoyl-O-phospho-2-aminoethanol, N-arachidonoyl-O-phospho-2-aminoethanol, N-&agr;-linolenoyl-O-phospho-2-aminoethanol, N-&ggr;-linolenoyl-O-phospho-2-aminoethanol in different compositions exhibit a marked cell-growth inhibiting effect and display anti-tumor activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2003Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Ardenia Investments, Ltd.Inventor: Oleg Strelchenok
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Patent number: 6696582Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing aliphatic carboxylic acids from aldehydes by means of oxidation with oxygen or gases containing oxygen. This novel process is carried out in at least two stages at different temperatures, preferably in the absence of catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbHInventors: Helmut Springer, Peter Heymanns
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Patent number: 6696581Abstract: A process for conjugating organic compounds containing methylene interrupted carbon-carbon double bonds comprising (a) contacting ruthenium trichloride hydrate and an organic solvent or carboxylic acid to form a first mixture, the organic solvent or carboxylic acid being present in an amount sufficient to solubilize the ruthenium trichloride hydrate, and (b) contacting the first mixture with an organic compound containing methylene interrupted carbon-carbon double bonds at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to conjugate the organic compound containing methylene interrupted carbon-carbon double bonds; wherein the ruthenium in the ruthenium trichloride hydrate in (b) is present in an amount of about 5 ppm to about 100 ppm based on the weight of the organic compound containing methylene interrupted carbon-carbon double bonds.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Archer-Daniels-Midland CompanyInventor: Ronald T. Sleeter
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Patent number: 6693209Abstract: Diesters of dianhydroglycitols can be prepared by esterification of dianhydroglycitols, anhydroglycitols and/or glycitols with alkylcarboxylic or arylcarboxylic acids in the presence of an acid catalyst, the acid catalyst being a macroporous acid ion exchange resin. If glycitols or monoanhydroglycitols are used as the starting material, the reaction temperature is initially of the order of 120° C. and after the dehydration is approximately 140° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: ATO B.V.Inventors: Daniël Stephan Van Es, Augustinus Emmanuel Frissen, Hendrikus Luitjes
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Patent number: 6683224Abstract: Naturally occurring fats, oils and fatty derivatives are continuously hydrogenated to fatty alcohols in a fixed-bed reactor in the presence of hydrogen in excess and hydrogenation catalysts under static pressures of 50 to 300 bar and at temperatures of 160 to 320° C. The liquid product is cooled and the excess hydrogen is returned to the reactor entrance by a gas circulation pump as a recycle gas after separation of the liquid product. The expense involved in cooling and reheating the recycle gas is eliminated without any reduction in the quality of the fatty alcohol produced providing the recycle gas is returned to the reactor entrance without reheating and the hydrogenation reaction is carried out under static pressures of at least 200 bar.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Roland Hourticolon, Guenther Demmering, Hans-Peter Kubersky, Lothar Friesenhagen, Friedrich Hommers, Juergen Latzel, Eberhard Peukert, Hans-Guenther Richard, Udo Kreutzer
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Patent number: 6680395Abstract: The invention relates to a non-catalysed method for the synthesis of straight-chain aliphatic carboxylic acids by oxidation of straight-chain aldehydes with oxygen-containing gas mixtures. The invention is characterised in that during the novel process of oxidation branched aldehydes are present in the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbHInventor: Helmut Springer
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Patent number: 6677470Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of human and animal nutrition, and in particular to certain novel compositions of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA). In particular, the present invention relates certain isomers of conjugated linoleic acids at either the SN1 and SN3 or SN2 positions of the acylglyceride molecule and another fatty acyl residue at the other of the SN1 and SN3 or SN2 positions of the acylglyceride molecule. These novel acylglyceride compositions containing conjugated linoleic acyl residues, medium chain fatty acyl residues, long chain fatty acyl residues, and &ohgr;3, &ohgr;6, and &ohgr;9 fatty acyl residues are efficacious as pharmaceutical compositions, animal feed additives, and human dietary supplements.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Natural ASAInventors: Asgeir Saebo, Jo Klaveness
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Patent number: 6677469Abstract: A two-step (two-stage) columnar supercritical fluid fractionation process enriches phytosterols and phytosterol esters in vegetable oils, particularly vegetable oils containing oryzanol and/or fatty acid or ferulic esters of phytosterols. The first stage is a deacidification and the second stage is a phytosterol enrichment. The method may be conducted in a continuous or semi-continuous mode of column operation and yields a product that is essentially free of residual objectionable or organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Nurhan T. Dunford, Jerry W. King
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Patent number: 6673952Abstract: The invention concerns a method for extracting and fractionating fats contained in a raw material, characterized in that it comprises at least a step which consists in using an extraction solvent consisting of at least a hydrofluoroether of general formula (I): CnF2n+1OCmH2m+1, wherein: n ranges between 3 and 6 and m ranges between 1 and 5 and at least a separation step enabling to obtain a raw extract of fats rich in unsaponifiable substances and optionally, in free fatty acids and a insoluble extraction fraction.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: ExtractiveInventors: Benoit LeMaire, Michel Surbled, Jacques Zwegers, Bernard Mompon
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Patent number: 6664406Abstract: The present invention relates to a nervonic acid derivatives of formula (I) CH3—(CH2)7—CH═CH—(CH2)13—C(O)—O—(CH2)3—OR (I) wherein R is hydrogen (H) or a residue of a carboxylic acid; or a salt of the compound where R is H; or a bioprecursor, prodrug thereof. Those compounds wherein R is other than H have pharmacological activity, in particular anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. Those compounds wherein R is H can be used to prepare the pharmacologically active derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Croda International PLCInventors: Keith Coupland, Yann Raoul