Patents by Inventor Anna Häkämies

Anna Häkämies 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).

  • Publication number: 20240164406
    Abstract: A method of producing a meat analogue food ingredient. The method includes a downstream process including cultivating bacterial cells to obtain a biomass, separating a liquid phase and a solid phase of the biomass, concentrating the biomass by removing the liquid phase; and drying the biomass to obtain the first protein powder; mixing a first protein powder with a liquid and NaCl to obtain a powder mixture; extruding the powder mixture with high-moisture extrusion; cutting the extruded mixture; and cooling the extruded mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Solar Foods Oy
    Inventors: Anna HÄKÄMIES, Anni NISOV
  • Publication number: 20240156127
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a meat analogue food product that includes mixing a microbial biomass protein slurry with a preparation with transglutaminase enzyme to obtain a protein mixture; incubating the protein mixture for a first period time with mixing at a temperature ranging from 28° C. up to 40° C.; adding at least one of selected from an aqueous MgCl2 or an aqueous CaCl2 to the protein mixture; incubating the protein mixture for a second period of time; incubating the protein mixture for a third period of time in a water bath at a temperature ranging from 40° C. up to 60° C.; heating the protein mixture at a temperature ranging from 60° C. up to 85° C.; and setting the protein mixture in a closed mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Solar Foods Oy
    Inventor: Anna HÄKÄMIES
  • Publication number: 20240156138
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an egg replacement food product that includes mixing a protein microbial biomass powder with water to obtain a wet mixture, hydrating the wet mixture at room temperature, mixing the wet mixture at high speed, hydrating the mixed wet mixture at 6 C degrees, mixing the hydrated wet mixture with an oil at high speed and emulsifying the mixed wet mixture, homogenizing the emulsified mixed wet mixture, heating the homogenized wet mixture up to from 85 C up to 90 C degrees, and adding sodium chloride (NaCl) and citric acid to the heated wet mixture and mixing to obtain pH from 3.5 up to 4.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Solar Foods Oy
    Inventor: Anna HÄKÄMIES
  • Publication number: 20200236966
    Abstract: A process for producing a plant protein ingredient and the plant protein ingredient is disclosed. The process may include comminuting the plant material into particles, thereby obtaining comminuted plant material; separating the particles of the comminuted plant material into a finer fraction and a coarser fraction; washing the finer fraction with an aqueous alcohol solution for reducing the solubility of proteins contained in the finer fraction, thereby obtaining a washed finer fraction; enzymatically treating the washed finer fraction to remove at least a part of the phytate and/or cell wall components to obtain an enzymatically treated finer fraction, and optionally removing at least a part of water soluble components from the enzymatically treated finer fraction, thereby obtaining the plant protein ingredient; and drying the plant protein ingredient to a moisture content of at most 45% (w/w).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Avena Nordic Grain Oy
    Inventors: Kaisu RIIHINEN, Anna HÄKÄMIES
  • Patent number: 10499663
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a textured food product and a texturized food product comprises the steps of preparing a slurry, the dry matter of which comprises at least 35 weight-% legume protein, 10 to 45 weight-% oat bran, wholegrain oat flour or a mixture thereof, and 3.5 to 35% weight-% oat protein, wherein the oat bran, wholegrain oat flour and oat protein add up to no more than 65 weight-%. The slurry further comprises water 20-80%, preferably 30-40%, most preferably 35-40%, of the weight of the dry matter. The method further includes cooking the slurry in an extruder cooker and extruding it to form a texturized food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: GOLD & GREEN FOODS OY
    Inventors: Reetta Kivelä, Anna Häkämies
  • Publication number: 20180279646
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a textured food product comprising the steps of preparing a slurry comprising dry matter and water, wherein the dry matter comprises 1. at least 35% by weight legume protein, 2. 10% to 45% by weight oat bran, whole grain oat flour or a mixture thereof, and 3. 2% t 35% by weight of the dry matter of oat protein, of which 2. and 3. must always add up to no more than 65% by weight. The slurry further comprises water 20%-80% by weight of the weight of the dry matter. The method further includes cooking the slurry in an extruder cooker and extruding the cooked slurry to form the textured food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Reetta KIVELÄ, Anna HÄKÄMIES, Zhongqing JIANG
  • Publication number: 20170105428
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a textured food product and a texturized food product comprises the steps of preparing a slurry, the dry matter of which comprises at least 35 weight-% legume protein, 10 to 45 weight-% oat bran, wholegrain oat flour or a mixture thereof, and 3.5 to 35% weight-% oat protein, wherein the oat bran, wholegrain oat flour and oat protein add up to no more than 65 weight-%. The slurry further comprises water 20-80%, preferably 30-40%, most preferably 35-40%, of the weight of the dry matter. the method further includes cooking the slurry in an extruder cooker and extruding it to form an texturized food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Reetta Kivelä, Anna Häkämies