Patents by Inventor Andrea Alcantara Lopez

Andrea Alcantara Lopez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Crispy flour taquito
    Patent number: 7704537
    Abstract: Frozen taquitos are made on a commercial scale by preparing a flour-based tortilla dough, shaping that dough into generally circular tortillas, baking the tortillas, applying a strip of filling to each baked tortilla, rolling the baked tortilla around the filling to form a filled tortilla, coating the tortilla with batter, frying the batter-coated filled tortillas, and freezing them. To reconstitute, the frozen taquito can be heated in a microwave oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company
    Inventors: Andrea Alcantara Lopez, Lucy Alvarado, Troy Bonata, James Matthews, W. Richard Dyer, Mark Rogers, Viviano Del Villar