Patents by Inventor Charles W. Bertalan

Charles W. Bertalan 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).

  • Process for preparing non-hydroxypropylated, crosslinked, pregelatinized, starch and product
    Patent number: 5470968
    Abstract: Raw starch which has been treated with an emulsifying agent during a wash step, such as during refining, is alkali-treated, washed to remove flavor, crosslinked, neutralized, gelatinized and dried to give instant starch useful for instant puddings and mixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Kraft Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay H. Katcher, Charles W. Bertalan
  • Quick-setting dessert gel mix
    Patent number: 5389393
    Abstract: A dry mix for producing a quick-setting gel which has a texture which is as desirable as gelatin gels. The mix contains as components agglomerated potassium or sodium alginate, agglomerated calcium salt, sweetening agents, food acids, buffering agents and preferably anti-oxidant. The sweetening agents can be sugars, intensive sweeteners and/or hydrolyzed starches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark V. Hembling, Lawrence T. McCarty, Julia A. Stephenson, Eva C. Szewczyk, Charles W. Bertalan, Joseph P. DeStephano
  • Process for preparing non-hydroxypropylated, deflavored, crosslinked, pregelatinized, starch and product
    Patent number: 5342932
    Abstract: Raw starch which has been treated with an emulsifying agent during a wash step, such as during refining, is alkali-treated, washed to remove flavor, crosslinked, neutralized, gelatinized and dried to give instant starch useful for instant puddings and mixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay H. Katcher, Charles W. Bertalan
  • Process for preparing non-hydroxypropylated, deflavored, crosslinked, pregelatinized, starch and product
    Patent number: 5187272
    Abstract: Starch is alkali treated, washed to remove flavor, crosslinked, neutralized, gelatinized and treated with an emulsifying agent to give instant starch useful for instant puddings and mixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay H. Katcher, Charles W. Bertalan
  • Powdered mix for producing a three-layered dessert and process therefore
    Patent number: 4869917
    Abstract: A dry-blended dessert mix which upon successive whipping with water at various temperatures produces, upon cooling, a three-layered, multitextured gelatin dessert. The mix is a blend of a non-whippable dry fat emulsion, gelatin, sweetener, acid, flavor and color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Colin W. Cunningham, Steven J. Malits, Charles W. Bertalan