Patents by Inventor Dan Beyer

Dan Beyer 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).

  • NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE PET FOOD AND METHOD OF FEEDING AND MANUFACTURING SAME
    Publication number: 20080138464
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nutritionally complete and preferably balanced, shelf stable pet food product, a method of feeding the pet food product to an animal and a process of manufacturing that pet food product. The method of feeding an animal includes the step of feeding a preferred pet food product to the animal, wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally complete meal and is configured such that the animal can hold the product with its appendages while eating the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Stewart Townsend, Kristin Boyle, Dan Beyer, Oscar Ortiz, Allan A. Torney, Frank Shields, Helen Munday, Alexandre Consul Mendes, Angel Hernandez, Emine Unlu, Saeed Ahmed, Peter S. Slusarczyk, Christopher Frank, Liisa Mooney, Kasim A. Zubair
  • Nutritionally complete pet food and method of feeding and manufacturing same
    Publication number: 20050181097
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nutritionally complete and preferably balanced, shelf stable pet food product, a method of feeding the pet food product to an animal and a process of manufacturing that pet food product. The method of feeding an animal includes the step of feeding a preferred pet food product to the animal, wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally complete meal and is configured such that the animal can hold the product with its appendages while eating the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: MARS, INC.
    Inventors: Stewart Townsend, Kristin Boyle, Dan Beyer, Oscar Ortiz, Allan Torney, Frank Shields, Helen Munday, Alexandre Mendes, Angel Hernandez, Emine Unlu, Saeed Ahmed, Peter Slusarczyk, Christopher Frank, Liisa Mooney, Kasim Zubair, Tiffany Bierer
  • Multicomponent food product and methods of making and using the same
    Publication number: 20050064073
    Abstract: A dual texture pet or animal food product having inner and outer components. The soft inner component contains a mixture of lipid and solid ingredients and has a water activity, aw, less than about 0.65 and a total moisture content less than about 15 wt %. The outer component is a cereal based shell containing at least one ingredient comprising a carbohydrate, fat, protein or combination thereof, the shell component having a total moisture content less than about 20 wt %. The shell component completely surrounds the soft inner component and is formed by the co-extrusion of the soft inner component within the shell component to form one dual component pet or animal food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Laura Paluch, Dan Beyer, John Thamm, Michael Wilson
  • Nutritionally complete pet food and method of feeding and manufacturing same
    Publication number: 20040253342
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nutritionally complete and preferably balanced, shelf stable pet food product, a method of feeding the pet food product to an animal and a process of manufacturing that pet food product. The method of feeding an animal includes the step of feeding a preferred pet food product to the animal, wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally complete meal and is configured such that the animal can hold the product with its appendages while eating the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: MARS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stewart Townsend, Kristin Boyle, Dan Beyer, Oscar Ortiz, Allan A. Torney, Frank Shields, Helen Munday, Alexandre Consul Mendes, Angel Hernandez, Emine Unlu, Saeed Ahmed, Peter S. Slusarczyk, Christopher Frank, Liisa Mooney, Kasim X. Zubair
  • Multicomponent per food or animal food
    Patent number: 6827957
    Abstract: A dual texture pet or animal food product having inner and outer components. The soft inner component contains a mixture of lipid and solid ingredients and has a water activity, aw, less than about 0.65 and a total moisture content less than about 15 wt %. The outer component is a cereal based shell containing at least one ingredient comprising a carbohydrate, fat, protein or combination thereof, the shell component having a total moisture content less than about 20 wt %. The shell component completely surrounds the soft inner component and is formed by the co-extrusion of the soft inner component within the shell component to form one dual component pet or animal food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Laura Paluch, Michael J. Wilson, John Thamm, Dan Beyer