Patents by Inventor Douglas A. Bye

Douglas A. Bye 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).

  • Fat free edible composition and method of making and using same
    Patent number: 5824358
    Abstract: A substantially fat free, edible composition which is usable with a bakery product, such as a wafer, to provide a topping, icing or filling between two wafers, which composition is directed to the food technology that includes a substantially body of background such as physical properties and function of various constitutent components used in icings or fillings. The substantially fat free, edible composition includes essentially no added natural sugar and has the physical temperature characteristics of a generally hydrogenated fat. The composition is made up of sorbitol crystals partially dissolved by heat in water at a level of less than about 10% by weight of the composition and heated with the water for dissolution to a maximum temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: The J. M. Smucker Company
    Inventors: Douglas A. Bye, Joann Maxwell