Patents Examined by Erik Kashnikow
  • Meat like pet food chunks
    Patent number: 11324233
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of pet food. In particular the present invention relates to a meat like chunk that can be incorporated into a complete pet food. One embodiment of the present invention is a method of using multiple scraped surface heat exchangers and a steam tunnel to produce a meat like chunk. Another embodiment is a composition of meat ingredients, dried egg product, egg whites, and pea protein that results in a meat like chunk having an improved appearance that closely resembles that of actual pieces of meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: USPET Nutrition, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Kent Ray
  • Functional food and their manufacturing process as well as the application on food and beverage products
    Patent number: 11297867
    Abstract: A functional food in the form of agglomeration powder which has the characteristics of easily soluble in water. Functional food product in accordance with the present invention contains carbohydrates of oligosaccharides component rich of food-fiber, and also serves as prebiotic. The advantages of this functional food are sugar free, Trans Fat free, and lactose-free. Moreover, it can be widely applied both in the food and beverages so that to facilitate consumers in consuming to the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PT. Lautan Natural Krimerindo
    Inventor: Hendrik Gunawan
  • Powdered fat/oil composition, food including powdered fat/oil composition, and methods for producing same
    Patent number: 11292989
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a powdered fat and/or oil composition, a food containing the powdered fat and/or oil composition, and methods for producing these. Specifically, provided are a fat and/or oil composition containing 65 to 99% by mass of a XXX triglyceride and 35 to 1% by mass of X2Y triglycerides, a powdered fat and/or oil composition obtained from the fat and/or oil composition, a food containing the powdered fat and/or oil composition, and methods for producing these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyomi Oonishi, Tomohiro Aibara, Noriko Murayama, Muneo Tsukiyama, Seiya Takeguchi, Hidetaka Uehara, Tatsuya Kobayashi, Hirofumi Denda
  • Beer-flavored beverage, method for producing beer-flavored beverage, and method for imparting excellent richness and quality of aftertaste to beer-flavored beverage
    Patent number: 11292995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a beer-taste beverage having a malt ratio in materials of 66.6% by mass or less, a protein content greater than 0.31 g/100 ml, and sugars content of 2.5 g/100 ml or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sapporo Breweries Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuro Shinkai, Yuta Matsui, Yoichi Kozaki
  • Feeding methods and systems for young livestock animals using sensory compounds
    Patent number: 11291220
    Abstract: Methods of feeding young animals involves mixing sensory compounds containing botanicals, essential oils or both with at least one of a milk replacer and/or starter feed and providing the feed to the young animals to reduce feed refusal or intake variation. A method of reducing feed intake variation in a group of young animals includes feeding an effective amount of sensory compounds containing licorice root in at least one of a milk replacer or a starter feed to reduce feed intake variation compared to a group of young animals fed the same diet but without the sensory compounds. Reducing feed refusal in a young livestock animal may also include feeding an effective amount of sensory compounds in one or more of a milk replacer and a starter feed such that the young animal reduces feed refusal compared to a young animal fed the same diet but without the sensory compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Purina Animal Nutrition LLC
    Inventor: Bill L. Miller
  • Method and apparatus for crimping and cutting pouched dough products
    Patent number: 11284626
    Abstract: A crimping and cutting assembly includes a first roller engaged with a second roller including a honeycomb pattern of polygonal crimping and cutting members. Various transversely spaced, internally filled dough ropes are fed between the first and second rollers, causing each rope to be continuously crimped and cut at longitudinally spaced locations to create multi-sided food products, specifically polygonal food products having two to six crimped and cut sides. The ropes can permissibly shift or wander laterally during production, resulting in slightly different size or shape food products, while the honeycomb pattern acts to re-align the ropes so as to be tolerant to the ropes wandering while still preventing puncturing of the ropes which could lead to loss of filling and extended production downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventor: James Weinstein
  • Lipid composition for use in infants and young children for promoting gut comfort and optimal fat and calcium absorption
    Patent number: 11278047
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nutritional composition, for infants and young children (about 12 to 36 months) in which the sum of the triacylglycerols (TAG) sn-1(3) palmitic acid (PA), myristic acid (MA) and stearic acid (SA) constitutes less than 13.0% of the TAG. The composition promotes absorption of fatty acids and calcium in the gut, improves gut comfort, decreases abdominal pain associated with hard stool formation, promotes regular bowel movements and reduces the incidence and severity of constipation in infants and young children (up to the age of about three years old). The composition also promotes bone mineralization, increasing bone strength and bone mineral density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Destaillats, Valerie Petit
  • Edible water-in-oil emulsion and a process for preparing such emulsion
    Patent number: 11272717
    Abstract: The invention relates to an edible water-in-oil emulsion comprising a fat-phase comprising a first hardstock and a second hardstock, wherein said fat-phase has a total amount of hardstock of from 2 to 60 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: UPFIELD EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Eckhard Flöter, Teunis de Man, Henelyta Santos Ribeiro
  • Method for obtaining value-determining contents from foods
    Patent number: 11252983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for obtaining value-determining contents, such as flavouring substances, vitamins, and polyphenols, from foods (13), having the following steps: a) providing a food (13), b) adding a plant oil (15) as an extractant, c) grinding the food (13) and the plant oil (15) into a mash (21), and d) separating the mash into an extraction phase, which is an oil phase (25), and a solid phase (29) as a raffinate phase. The food (13) and the plant oil (19) are ground very finely, said grinding process being defined in that the food (13) together with the plant oil (15) is ground until the oil phase (25) has an average particle size of less than 300 ?m, preferably less than 100 ?m, particularly preferably less than 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: UNICO-FIRST AG, ZHAW—ZÜRCHER HOCHSCHULE FÜR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN
    Inventors: Roland Laux, Tilo Hühn
  • Method of producing concentrated or dried acid-gellable whey protein aggregates, and related compositions and food products
    Patent number: 11252977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing acid-gellable whey protein aggregates in the form of concentrated suspensions or powders. Moreover, the present invention relates to a novel composition containing the acid-gellable whey protein aggregates, to a food product ingredient comprising the novel type of acid-gellable whey protein composition, and to a food product comprising the novel type of acid-gellable whey protein composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Arla Foods Amba
    Inventors: Mette Møller Andersen, Søren Bang Nielsen, Hans Bertelsen
  • Thickener for liquid component
    Patent number: 11246322
    Abstract: Provided is means of thickening a liquid component, wherein the thickener contains an oil and/or fat composition, the oil and/or fat composition contains an oil and/or fat component containing one or more types of XXX-type triglycerides having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3 of glycerin, x, the number of carbon atoms, is an integer selected from 10 to 22, and the XXX-type triglyceride is contained at 50% by mass or more relative to a content of the oil and/or fat component being 100% by mass; or the thickener, wherein the oil and/or fat composition is a powder oil and/or fat composition having a loose bulk density of 0.05 to 0.6 g/cm3, the oil and/or fat component contains a 3-type oil and/or fat, and a particle of the powder oil and/or fat composition has a plate shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaro Kataoka, Seiya Takeguchi, Tetsuro Iwasawa, Shin Arimoto, Hidetaka Uehara
  • Hard taco shell and method and apparatus for producing the hard taco shell
    Patent number: 11246315
    Abstract: A taco shell is produced using a rotary cutter including a shaft, an outer blade extending radially outward from the shaft and a first inner blade extending radially outward from the shaft. The outer blade defines an interior area, enclosed by the outer blade, and an exterior area. The first inner blade is located in the interior area and includes a plurality of teeth. A dough piece is cut from a dough sheet with the outer blade, and a first arcuate line of depressions is created in the dough piece with the plurality of teeth. The dough piece is folded to form a shaped dough piece, and the shaped dough piece is baked to produce a hard taco shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivakumar Elayedath, John J Fenske, Sean Igo, Andrew David King, David Morrison Russell, Samuel Whitmore, Mark Anthony Zentile
  • Powderizing agent for liquid component
    Patent number: 11241020
    Abstract: Provided is means of powderizing a liquid component, wherein the powderizing agent contains an oil and/or fat composition, the oil and/or fat composition contains an oil and/or fat component which contains one or more types of XXX-type triglycerides having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3 of glycerin, x, the number of carbon atoms, is an integer selected from 10 to 22, and the XXX-type triglyceride is contained at 50% by mass or more relative to a content of the oil and/or fat component being 100% by mass; or the powderizing agent, wherein the oil and/or fat composition is a powder oil and/or fat composition having a loose bulk density of 0.05 to 0.6 g/cm3, the oil and/or fat component contains a ?-type oil and/or fat, and a particle of the powder oil and/or fat composition has a plate shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaro Kataoka, Seiya Takeguchi, Tetsuro Iwasawa, Shin Arimoto, Hidetaka Uehara
  • Radiation grill
    Patent number: 11242998
    Abstract: A radiation grill unit (1) comprises (i) a food support unit (100) with bars (110), (ii) a radiation unit (200) that includes a reflector (210) (with reflector opening (223)) hosting an IR radiation heater (220), wherein the radiation unit (200) is configured to provide IR radiation (201) in a direction of the food support unit (100), and (iii) a radiation grill unit cavity (3) configured to host a drip tray (300). The drip tray is configured in the radiation grill unit cavity below a lower part edge of the reflector and out of a line of sight of direct IR radiation from the IR radiation heater. The drip tray further comprises a drip tray face and at least one drip tray reservoir configured at a side edge of the drip tray in a location that does not receive direct IR radiation, and configured to store a lipid comprising liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Martijn Van Zutphen, Sipke Theo Douma, Timotheus Johannes Maria Van Aken, Reindert Jannes Van Wifferen, Petrus Johannes Bremer, Ingrid Hietbrink, Manel Josefien Leuverink
  • Biscuit with debossing on top and bottom
    Patent number: 11234443
    Abstract: A foodstuff, and a method and system of making the same, comprises a biscuit having a generally planar top surface and a generally planar bottom surface. The biscuit includes first indicia on the top surface that has a plurality of projections that extend from the top surface. The biscuit also includes second indicia on the bottom surface that has an imprint recessed from the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Mihaelos N. Mihalos, Theodore N. Janulis, Alan John Kino, Kenchu Antonio Tham
  • Method for manufacturing sausage products, sausage and sausage production
    Patent number: 11224229
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing sausage products by means of co-extrusion, wherein the method comprises the steps of: providing a food dough (6); providing a viscous casing mass material (8); and producing by means of co-extrusion a sausage strand (2) with the extrusion of a centre of food dough at least partially provided by layered casing mass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Marel Further Processing B.V.
    Inventors: Adrianus Josephes Van De Nieuwelaar, Marcus Bernhard Hubert Bontjer, Léon Marie Francois Spierts, Leonie Petronella Wilhelmina Maria Boons
  • Methods and system for wheat milling
    Patent number: 11219902
    Abstract: Processes and systems for commercial scale milling of wheat are disclosed. Processes include multiple tempering steps of controlled duration and cubing of the wheat kernel between two tempering steps. The cubing between the tempering breaks the kernels, or stresses the kernels, in a manner that enables a high degree of separation of the bran and endosperm early in the flour production process. An embodiment includes tempering for a first period between hour and 2 hours, cubing in a roll crusher with longitudinal corrugations on one roll and circumferential corrugations on a second roll, removing fines from the cubed kernels, and further tempering of the cubed kernels for a period between hour and 2 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ardent Mills, LLC
    Inventor: Emil Kolb
  • Powderizing agent for liquid component
    Patent number: 11220654
    Abstract: Provided is means of powderizing a liquid component, wherein the powderizing agent contains an oil and/or fat composition, and when a total triglyceride content is set to 100% by mass, the oil and/or fat composition contains 65 to 99% by mass of one or more types of XXX-type triglycerides having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3 and 35 to 1% by mass of one or more types of X2Y-type triglycerides each having a fatty acid residue Y with y carbon atoms in place of one of the fatty acid residues X of the XXX-type triglyceride, x, the number of carbon atoms, is an integer selected from 8 to 20, and y, the number of carbon atoms, is each independently an integer selected from x+2 to x+12 and satisfies y?22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Takeguchi, Yutaro Kataoka, Tetsuro Iwasawa, Shin Arimoto, Hidetaka Uehara
  • Thickener for liquid component
    Patent number: 11219224
    Abstract: Provided is means of thickening a liquid component, wherein the thickener contains an oil and/or fat composition, and when a total triglyceride content is set to 100% by mass, the oil and/or fat composition contains 65 to 99% by mass of one or more types of XXX-type triglycerides having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3 and 35 to 1% by mass of one or more types of X2Y-type triglycerides each having a fatty acid residue Y with y carbon atoms in place of one of the fatty acid residues X of the XXX-type triglyceride, x, the number of carbon atoms, is an integer selected from 8 to 20, and y, the number of carbon atoms, is each independently an integer selected from x+2 to x+12 and satisfies y?22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: THE NISSHIN OILLIO GROUP, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Takeguchi, Yutaro Kataoka, Tetsuro Iwasawa, Shin Arimoto, Hidetaka Uehara
  • Methods for making grill-type smoked food ingredients
    Patent number: 11219234
    Abstract: A method for making a liquid (e.g. water or oil)-based food ingredient, having grill flavour properties, comprises: combusting in the presence of oxygen, an intimate mixture of (i) 2-15 parts by weight smoke source and (ii) 1 part by weight flavour source, to generate smoke; and combining the smoke with a liquid carrier, yielding the food ingredient, wherein the flavour source comprises a lipid having an oleic acid content (whether free or esterified) of 20% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PureSmoke Limited
    Inventors: Elena Cristea, Huw David Griffiths