Patents by Inventor Derek Joseph Romeo

Derek Joseph Romeo 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).

  • Patent number: 8525087
    Abstract: Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base it provided in the form of a shipping carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Derek Joseph Romeo, Paul Andrew Cogley, Amy Lynn Matusheski, Keith Eric Petrofsky, Peter Privert, Uraiwan Tangprasertchai, Steven Paul Greiner, Neil Edward Darin, Joseph R. Brooks
  • Patent number: 8026464
    Abstract: Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking. The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base is provided in the form of a shipping carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Derek Joseph Romeo, Paul Andrew Cogley, Amy Lynn Matusheski, Keith Eric Petrofsky, Peter Privert, Uraiwan Tangprasertchai, Steven Paul Greiner, Neil Edward Darin, Joseph R. Brooks
  • Publication number: 20110226761
    Abstract: Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base it provided in the form of a shipping carton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Derek Joseph Romeo, Paul Andrew Cogley, Amy Lynn Matusheski, Keith Eric Petrofsky, Peter Privert, Uraiwan Tangprasertchai, Steven Paul Greiner, Neil Edward Darin, Joseph R. Brooks
  • Patent number: 6340091
    Abstract: A rack for displaying and dispensing a plurality of products and accessory products which has an elgongated body having a top end and a bottom end, wherein the body defines at least one vertically oriented interior chute. The chute is adapted to hold the plurality of vertically stacked products. A signage panel is mounted on at least a portion of the body, and an accessory display support is attached to the body. An elongated accessory product display is attached to the accessory display support to display a plurality of accessory product adjacent the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: American Tool Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Joseph Romeo, Kristen Leanne Lake, Charles J. Peters
  • Patent number: D511681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Cogley, Derek Joseph Romeo, Neil Edward Darin
  • Patent number: D516905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Cogley, Derek Joseph Romeo, Neil Edward Darin
  • Patent number: D525127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Cogley, Derek Joseph Romeo, Joseph R. Brooks