Patents Examined by Leslie Wong
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Patent number: 10638772Abstract: A demineralised whey powder is suggested which is obtainable by: (a) Separating raw milk, removing the cream; (b) Subjecting the skimmed milk such obtained to microfiltration or microdiafiltration, obtaining a whey protein-rich permeate P1 and a retentate R1 containing casein and GMP in the process; (c) Subjecting the permeate P1 to column chromatography separation, in which the lactoferrin contained therein remains on the column; (d) Subjecting the permeate, from which lactoferrin had been removed, to dialysis; and (e) Dehydrating the diluate such obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbHInventors: Sven-Rainer Döring, Thorben Oehlckers, Torben Wiegers
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Patent number: 10638770Abstract: The invention describes a system of industrial production of strained yogurt which enables the natural straining by means of separation means, with the optimal use of the raw material, with the least possible stressing of the raw material and with the minimum possible loss of useful ingredients in the whey which is removed after straining and with the optimal stability of the characteristics of the final product, in each production batch. The invention describes the critical conditions of processes upstream of (namely before) the straining process, such as the physiochemical features of the raw milk, conditions of pasteurization and homogenization, conditions of incubation etc and the stacks of suitably selected and positioned membranes that are used for the straining, so that the final strained yogurt has the desired physiochemical features (proteins, fat, total solids) upon its exit from the straining rig.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: DELTA S.A. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF FOOD PRODUCTSInventors: Achilleas Anastasiadis, Nicolaos Koumanoudis, Nicolaos Pitsinis, Artemis Hatzigeorgiou
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Patent number: 10621314Abstract: Techniques for easy and secure deployment of a software package from a server to a customer-controlled computing device are described. In an embodiment, a deployment engine running on a server can be used to generate a unique URL for deployment of the software package. The unique URL may include a restricted use token. The restricted use token may be generated based on a combination of a random selection of one or more dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols. The restricted token is easily readable given the combination of dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols that make up the restricted use token. The unique URL may then be entered into a customer-controlled computing device via a curl command. The curl command will use the unique URL to generate a secure channel to the deployment engine and automatically download the software package onto the customer-controlled computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Daniel Fox, Felix Mance, Jelena Cvitanovic
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Patent number: 10609942Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide compositions and methods for a sweetener composition comprising stevia leaf extract, stevia glycosides, and/or Luo Han Guo fruit extract. The sweetener composition provides enhanced taste and/or flavor properties as compared to other non-caloric or low-caloric sweeteners. The sweetener composition has a reduced aftertaste relative to stevia leaf extract and/or purified steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition may be formulated into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May
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Patent number: 10606886Abstract: The disclosure is related to a system and a method for remote management of a virtual message for a moving object. The system has a database that stores data of multiple moving objects and image information of every moving object. The system has a server initiating a remote-management interface that allows the system user to perform remote management. The interface also allows the user to select one of the moving objects and configure a virtual message associated to the moving object. A set of search criteria with respect to the virtual message are defined. In the server, the data relating to every moving object, virtual message and the search criteria is established. The system facilitates the user to conduct remote management of managing multiple virtual messages and their associated moving objects at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventor: Yu-Hsien Li
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Patent number: 10595541Abstract: The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk and utilizing the separated components to form a fermentable composition such as yogurts. The present invention relates to nutritional milk compositions and products which are designed to include per serving size a specified percentage range of one or more components separated from milk. The compositions of the present invention can optionally include non-essential but nutritionally functional components.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: fairlife, LLCInventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, John M. Dunker, Michael J. McCloskey, Timothy J. Gomez, Richard J. Seguin
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Patent number: 10595542Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method for the production of curd and for the production of cheese from said curd, in particular a Swiss-type cheese, wherein a precursor is inoculated with a starter culture comprising a strain of dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin. The invention further relates to curds and cheeses obtainable by the method as well as to a starter culture for producing a cheese, comprising a strain of dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: CSK FOOD ENRICHMENT B.V.Inventors: Willem Cornelis Meijer, Lourdes Mariela Serrano Davalos, Lex Smalbrink
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Patent number: 10597620Abstract: A consumable comprising an ingredient or ingredients that cause an off-taste in the consumable, and a chlorogenic acid provided in a concentration sufficient to mask or modify the off-taste. The chlorogenic acid may be supplied as an extract from a botanical source obtained by extraction at 30-80° C. with water and/or a polar organic solvent. The method of making an off-taste by addition of a chlorogenic acid to a consumable is also claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Givaudan SAInventors: Minjien Chien, Alex Häusler, Hans Van Leersum
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Patent number: 10599524Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to improve backup performance after backup failure. It is determined whether a backup operation is successful. In response to a determination that the backup operation was unsuccessful, backup metadata associated with the backup operation is replaced with snapshot metadata associated with a snapshot that is taken at a first point in time that is prior to initiation of the backup operation. A rolled-back snapshot that permits another backup operation to be performed at a second point in time based on the snapshot metadata is then generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLCInventors: Shuangmin Zhang, Yongguo Yan, Xianbo Zhang, Kai Li, Weibao Wu, Shengzhao Li
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Patent number: 10582715Abstract: A powder flavour composition comprising a compound according to the formula (I) or edible salts thereof, and at least one flavour co-ingredient wherein R1 is an alkyl residue containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an alkene residue containing from 9 to 25 carbon atoms with 1 to 6 double bonds, R1 together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid, and NR2R3, in which R3 is H or together with R2 and the N-atom to which they are attached, a 5-membered ring, is a residue of an amino acid, in particular a proteinogenic amino acid, ornithine, gamma-aminobutyric acid or beta alanine, or a 1-amino cycloalkyl carboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: GIVAUDAN SAInventors: Feng Shi, Harry Renes, Esther Van Ommeren, Susanna Magdalena Vorster, Yili Wang, Adri De Klerk
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Patent number: 10583314Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of sweet steviol glycoside compounds, particularly rebaudioside B, in sweetening compositions. Sweetening compositions comprising selected amounts of rebaudioside B have been shown to possess favorable flavor profiles when compared to other high intensity sweetener compounds and are useful in the preparation of consumables.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: TATE & LYLE INGREDIENTS AMERICAS LLCInventors: John R. Bridges, Alfred Carlson, Penelope A. Patton
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Patent number: 10572536Abstract: A social networking system provides feed to users in response to requests from users. The feed includes feed stories that include one or more of text, image, or videos. The social networking system generates a feed in which the number of video feed stories is determined based on the video feed story rate determined for each specific request. The social networking system determines the video feed story rate based on various features including features describing the request, for example, the time of the day that the request is received. The social networking system may include other features for determining the video feed story rate, for example, user specific features describing the user that sent the request. The social networking system sends the generated feed to the client device of the target user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Zigang Xiao, Jie Xu
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Patent number: 10572449Abstract: Provided herein are methodologies, systems, and devices for facilitating software discovery within a server environment using an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file. Such enterprise-specific application identifier tag files can be created for applications from various vendors and can include enterprise-specific information not known to an application vendor. Once created, the enterprise-specific application identifier tag file is deployed within the server environment, and may be saved on a database associated with the server environment. The application identifier tag files can include a link to their corresponding application files and can facilitate in application/software discovery by allowing a user to determine application information by performing an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file query.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Sreenevas Subramaniam, David Stefferud, Kant Udornpim
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Patent number: 10568335Abstract: Disclosed are processes for reducing the cooked flavor, sulfur odor, and brown color of milk products that have been subjected to ultra-high temperature (UHT) sterilization via the UHT sterilization of certain milk fractions separately.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: fairlife, LLCInventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, Brandon Kopesky, Scott Backinoff, Timothy Peter Doelman, Calvin White
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Patent number: 10572524Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein generate a comment-summary interface that can help a user find comments of interest to the user. The comment-summary interface allows a user to access comments according to topics instead of scrolling through all of the comments found in a comment section associated with a primary content, such as a news article on a website, a social post, product review, and such. Categorizing the comments into topics makes more efficient use of computer resources by avoiding the need to display comments that are not of interest to the user. The plurality of comments analyzed by aspects of the technology described herein are unstructured comments. Unstructured comments lack specific subject matter categories designated by a user or preselected by a webpage.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Vasileios Kandylas, Serge-Eric Tremblay, Omar Alonso
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Patent number: 10572472Abstract: Systems, architecture and methods for updating parameters in relational database management software of a mainframe computing system is provided. Methods and apparatus are provided for streamlining the updating of the parameters. Methods and apparatus for reducing errors in the updating of the parameters are also provided, as well as for reducing risk of malicious corruption of data stored in an enterprise database. Also provided are methods and apparatus for detecting and/or tracking database parameter updates and/or errors.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventor: Tyler H. Crane
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Patent number: 10558724Abstract: Location graph-based derivation of user attributes. Location data associated with a user, such as a current and/or past location at which the user has been, is received. A user attribute data associated with the location data is determined and used to update a user profile associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: NINTHDECIMAL, INC.Inventors: Kevin Toshio Ching, Grigory Sokol, Ahmad Fairiz Azizi, Luke Gain, Yury Zhyshko, Mark Christopher Dixon, Robert Abusaidi, Kevin McKenzie, John Raymond Klein, Leonid Blyukher, Jeff Pittelkau, David Staas
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Patent number: 10558706Abstract: The present teaching relates to determining user interests based on a correspondence graph. In one example, correspondences among a plurality of users are obtained. Connections among at least some of the plurality of users are identified based on the correspondences. A graph is constructed based on the identified connections. Each of the identified connections has a strength determined based on correspondences associated with the identified connection. One or more seed users are selected from the plurality of users. Each of the one or more seed users has at least one known interest. An interest is determined for each of the at least some of the plurality of users based on the graph and the known interests of the one or more seed users.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventor: Hao Zheng
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Patent number: 10552389Abstract: Techniques are provided for orphan object detection, invalid sequence number detection, and asynchronous object cleanup. A storage system may store data within one or more tiers of storage, such as a storage tier (e.g., solid state storage and disks maintained by the storage system), a remote object store (e.g., storage provided by a third party storage provider), and/or other storage tiers. Orphan objects, within the remote object store, that are no longer used by the storage system may be detected and/or deleted. When an aggregate of volumes is deleted, corresponding objects, within the remote object store, may be identified and/or deleted. Invalid sequence numbers (e.g., lost or corrupt sequence numbers locally maintained in a metafile) assigned to objects within the remote object store may be identified, deleted, and/or fixed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Ananthan Subramanian, Sridevi Jantli, Anil Paul Thoppil, Cheryl Marie Thompson, Qinghua Zheng
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Patent number: 10548337Abstract: The present invention relates to whey protein aggregate particles that can be used to stabilize foams, and more particularly edible foams, such as foamed dairy products. The invention provides a process for preparation of such whey protein aggregates, for the use of such particles for stabilizing foam, as well as edible foams or foamed product comprising such whey protein aggregate particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Markus Kreuss, Aristodimos Lazidis