Patents by Inventor Daniel Roland
Daniel Roland 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).
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Publication number: 20230041569Abstract: The invention concerns a method for drying at least one cell of the electrostatic precipitator of a smoke treating unit in a system of a coffee beans roasting apparatus and a smoke treating unit, said method comprising the step of passing hot air through said cell, while said cell is positioned inside the electrostatic precipitator and while said cell is switched off.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: JOEL MOREND, RISTE PINDJUROV, FLAVIEN FLORENT DUBIEF, DANIEL ROLAND MANSER
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Patent number: 10165890Abstract: Filtration unit (12) for use in a beverage preparation machine using a container for preparing the beverage; the unit being adapted to engage a container holder (3) intended to be inserted in the machine; said filtration unit comprising a filter (14) and a protective casing (12) encompassing the filter; said casing comprising an inlet wall with at least one liquid inlet (24) and an outlet wall with at least one liquid outlet (25) for delivering filtered liquid to a container lodged in the container holder wherein the filter (14) is arranged in a removable manner from the casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Nihan Dogan, Heinz Wyss, Daniel Roland Manser, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet
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Patent number: 10065787Abstract: A system and method for determining replenishment information for capsules as replenishment for a beverage production machine are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Yann Epars, Mark Shepherd, Florian Jacquier, Daniel Roland Manser
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Patent number: 9993108Abstract: Container holder (3) for use in a nutritional liquid preparation machine (1) for the preparation of a nutritional liquid from the mixture of ingredients contained in a container and liquid supplied by the machine in the container; said holder comprising a body with a container receiving seat (31) arranged for receiving the container (4) in a defined container sitting position and a filtration unit (12); such filtration unit comprising a liquid outlet (25) wherein the filtration unit is arranged with the container holder to be movable between a first position in which the container receiving seat (31) of the holder is uncovered for enabling the loading and unloading of the container in the container holder and a second position in which the container receiving seat (31) is covered by the filtration unit for enabling the liquid outlet (25) of the filtration unit to be positioned at the inlet side of the container (4) when a container is present in the container holder (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Nestec S. A.Inventors: Nihan Dogan, Heinz Wyss, Daniel Roland Manser, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet
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Patent number: 9844294Abstract: A system and method for determining the consumption by an infant of beverages produced from capsules in a beverage production machine. Capsule information regarding a plurality of different types of capsules is stored in a server. Further at least one user account including personal information about the infant consuming beverage produced from capsules is stored in said server. A beverage is produced from a capsule and the capsule used therefore by the beverage production machine is identified. The information on the identified capsule is transmitted to the server; such information including at least the date and time the beverage is prepared.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Yann Epars, Mark Shepherd, Florian Jacquier, Daniel Roland Manser
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Patent number: 9707469Abstract: The Double Barrel Mounting Hardware invention is a hardware application for attaching skateboard trucks to the underside of a skateboard deck. The hardware is shaped like an elongated U (Harness) and mounts from the underside of the skateboard trucks through two corresponding holes on either the left or right side of the skateboard truck. The Double Barrel Mounting Hardware spans across these two corresponding holes in the skateboard truck along the underside of the skateboard truck baseplate and has two 90 degrees turned barrels at each end to pass through the holes in the skateboard truck baseplate and into the underside corresponding holes in the skateboard deck. The barrel of the harness that goes through the skateboard trucks and into the skateboard deck contains female threaded barrels. Male threaded mating bolts engage the harness barrels from the top side of the skateboard deck and when threaded together the mating bolt and harness bond the skateboard deck and skateboard trucks together.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Inventors: Christopher Daniel Roland, James William Walker
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Publication number: 20170120137Abstract: The Double Barrel Mounting Hardware invention is a hardware application for attaching skateboard trucks to the underside of a skateboard deck. The hardware is shaped like an elongated U (Harness) and mounts from the underside of the skateboard trucks through two corresponding holes on either the left or right side of the skateboard truck. The Double Barrel Mounting Hardware spans across these two corresponding holes in the skateboard truck along the underside of the skateboard truck baseplate and has two 90 degrees turned barrels at each end to pass through the holes in the skateboard truck baseplate and into the underside corresponding holes in the skateboard deck. The barrel of the harness that goes through the skateboard trucks and into the skateboard deck contains female threaded barrels. Male threaded mating bolts engage the harness barrels from the top side of the skateboard deck and when threaded together the mating bolt and harness bond the skateboard deck and skateboard trucks together.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Christopher Daniel Roland, James William Walker
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Patent number: 9565967Abstract: A portioned system for preparing a nutritional liquid product comprising a liquid supply device (2, 41) and a container (4, 38) containing nutritional ingredients; said container having an opening (8), the system further 5 comprising a liquid injection interface (9, 37) for supplying an amount of liquid in the container (4, 38) thereby providing the nutritional liquid product, wherein the liquid injection interface (9, 37) comprises a liquid inlet (11, 43) and a product outlet (16, 48) for removing the nutritional liquid product from the container wherein the liquid injection interface comprises a wall (10) extending 10 transversally relative to the opening of the container during the operation of the system; said transversal wall (10) comprising the liquid inlet (11, 43) and the product outlet (16, 48) which are transversally distant one another along the said wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Daniel Roland Manser, Yann Epars, Heinz Wyss, Frederic Doleac, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet, Lucio Scorrano, Silvio Lardelli, Marco Ramaioli
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Publication number: 20160130068Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for determining replenishment information for capsules as replenishment for a beverage production machine. Capsule information regarding a plurality of different types of capsules is stored in a server. Further at least one user account including personal information about a person consuming beverage produced from capsules is stored in said server A beverage from a capsule is produced and the capsule used therefore by the beverage production machine is identified. The information on the identified capsule is transmitted to the server. Then at least one type of capsules as replenishment is determined on the basis of the capsule information and the user profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Yann EPARS, Mark SHEPHERD, Florian JACQUIER, Daniel Roland MANSER
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Publication number: 20150056330Abstract: Filtration unit (12) for use in a beverage preparation machine using a container for preparing the beverage; the unit being adapted to engage a container holder (3) intended to be inserted in the machine; said filtration unit comprising a filter (14) and a protective casing (12) encompassing the filter; said casing comprising an inlet wall with at least one liquid inlet (24) and an outlet wall with at least one liquid outlet (25) for delivering filtered liquid to a container lodged in the container holder wherein the filter (14) is arranged in a removable manner from the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Nihan Dogan, Heinz Wyss, Daniel Roland Manser, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet
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Publication number: 20150037473Abstract: A system and method for determining the consumption by an infant of beverages produced from capsules in a beverage production machine. Capsule information regarding a plurality of different types of capsules is stored in a server. Further at least one user account including personal information about the infant consuming beverage produced from capsules is stored in said server. A beverage is produced from a capsule and the capsule used therefore by the beverage production machine is identified. The information on the identified capsule is transmitted to the server; such information including at least the date and time the beverage is prepared.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Yann Epars, Mark Shepherd, Florian Jacquier, Daniel Roland Manser
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Publication number: 20150027318Abstract: Container holder (3) for use in a nutritional liquid preparation machine (1) for the preparation of a nutritional liquid from the mixture of ingredients contained in a container and liquid supplied by the machine in the container; said holder comprising a body with a container receiving seat (31) arranged for receiving the container (4) in a defined container sitting position and a filtration unit (12); such filtration unit comprising a liquid outlet (25) wherein the filtration unit is arranged with the container holder to be movable between a first position in which the container receiving seat (31) of the holder is uncovered for enabling the loading and unloading of the container in the container holder and a second position in which the container receiving seat (31) is covered by the filtration unit for enabling the liquid outlet (25) of the filtration unit to be positioned at the inlet side of the container (4) when a container is present in the container holder (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Nihan Dogan, Heinz Wyss, Daniel Roland Manser, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet
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Patent number: 8857317Abstract: Nutritional delivery system using single-serve capsules comprising: a dispenser for a nutritional composition comprising means for providing water into a single-use capsule containing a portion-controlled serving of a nutritional formula; different types of capsules (10,11,12,13,14,15,16) being designed according to a nutritional feeding plan corresponding to persons or categories of persons to be fed, each type comprising capsules containing a nutritional formula; the capsules of different types having at least one differentiating characteristic so that each type of capsules corresponds to a feeding time period determined by the feeding plan; control operation means associated to each type of capsules, said means comprising information relating to at least one differentiating operational parameter relevant to produce and deliver a differentiated nutritional liquid in the dispenser according to the feeding plan.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Daniel Roland Manser, Anne Roulin, Matthew David Steven, Heinz Wyss, Yann Epars, Conchita Tran
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Publication number: 20140279391Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that cause a single user interface to be accessible by an account manager, where the single user interface is capable of displaying biographical information about a customer, displaying financial history and information about the customer, displaying a credit bureau summary portion, integrating additional calculators into the user interface, providing an offer result history, providing a banking information indicator, creating decision fields in the user interface that utilize new data sources, and/or providing the ability to present dynamic scripting to the account manager based on account attributes and other attributes and data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Discover Financial Services LLCInventors: Suzanne Gallo, Daniel Roland, Shilpa Wadhera, Alfredo Osorio
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Publication number: 20130018463Abstract: The present invention relates to a collagen fiber construct composed of single collagen fibers, which is sterilized with alcohol and via irradiation and not populated with cells, wherein the single collagen fibers are isolated from collagen-containing tissue from mammals. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a collagen fiber construct composed of single collagen fibers, which is sterilized with alcohol and via irradiation and is not populated with cells, wherein the single collagen fibers are isolated from collagen-containing tissue from rat tails. Finally, there is also described the use of the collagen fiber constructs as xenoimplants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Daniel Roland Haddad, Meike Haddad-Weber, Ulrich Noeth
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Publication number: 20120244257Abstract: The invention relates to a probiotic infant formula kit, comprising, in one common container, but separated from each other by means of at least one partitioning element: —multiple doses of an infant formula in powder form, and -multiple doses of at least one type of probiotics, wherein the probiotics are present in its own packaging, wherein the packaging is designed such that the probiotic contained therein is released in discrete incremental amounts, the incremental amounts being visible to the human eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Helene Beatrice Lanctuit, Daniel Roland Manser
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Publication number: 20120219526Abstract: The present invention relates to nutritional composition for infants and/or children comprising lactoferrin and probiotics. These compositions have been found to be useful in providing health benefits in infants and/or children. A method of manufacture of these compositions is also part of the invention. These compositions may be in the form of a kit of parts wherein a first composition according to the invention and a second composition according to the invention are each adapted to fulfil the nutritional requirements in two different age groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Petra Gerda Klassen, Corinne Magliola, Daniel Roland Manser, Theresa Voss
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Publication number: 20120199227Abstract: A portioned system for preparing a nutritional liquid product comprising a liquid supply device (2, 41) and a container (4, 38) containing nutritional ingredients; said container having an opening (8), the system further 5 comprising a liquid injection interface (9, 37) for supplying an amount of liquid in the container (4, 38) thereby providing the nutritional liquid product, wherein the liquid injection interface (9, 37) comprises a liquid inlet (11, 43) and a product outlet (16, 48) for removing the nutritional liquid product from the container wherein the liquid injection interface comprises a wall (10) extending 10 transversally relative to the opening of the container during the operation of the system; said transversal wall (10) comprising the liquid inlet (11, 43) and the product outlet (16, 48) which are transversally distant one another along the said wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Daniel Roland Manser, Yann Epars, Heinz Wyss, Frederic Doleac, Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet, Lucio Scorrano, Silvio Lardelli, Marco Ramaioli
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Publication number: 20110262601Abstract: Nutritional delivery system using single-serve capsules comprising: a dispenser for a nutritional composition comprising means for providing water into a single-use capsule containing a portion-controlled serving of a nutritional formula; different types of capsules (10,11,12,13,14,15,16) being designed according to a nutritional feeding plan corresponding to persons or categories of persons to be fed, each type comprising capsules containing a nutritional formula; the capsules of different types having at least one differentiating characteristic so that each type of capsules corresponds to a feeding time period determined by the feeding plan; control operation means associated to each type of capsules, said means comprising information relating to at least one differentiating operational parameter relevant to produce and deliver a differentiated nutritional liquid in the dispenser according to the feeding plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Daniel Roland Manser, Anne Roulin, Matthew David Steven, Heinz Wyss, Yann Epars, Conchita Tran
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Patent number: 6609285Abstract: A process for forming a support that includes providing a blank with a first edge and a second edge and forming a first wing at the first edge and a second wing at the second edge. The first wing is folded toward the second wing and attached thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Herman Miller, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Roland Kinney