Patents by Inventor Elmo Wissing

Elmo Wissing 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).

  • Nutritional composition with health promoting action containing oligosaccharides
    Patent number: 8227448
    Abstract: A nutritional composition having beneficial effect in the gastrointestinal tract, especially an anti-adhesion effect on pathogenic micro-organisms and a bifidogenic effect, contains non-digestible oligosaccharides, said oligosaccharides comprising, per daily dosage, 0.3-10 g of oligosaccharides containing at least one terminal arabinose unit. The nutritional composition may furthermore comprise 0.5-10 g of other non-digestible oligosaccharides selected from fructo-oligosaccharides, galacto-oligosaccharides, xylo-oligosaccharides and manno-oligosaccharides. The arabino-oligosaccharides can be obtained conveniently by controlled hydrolysis of arabinose-containing polysaccharides from natural (vegetable) origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Elmo Wissing
  • Nutritional composition with health promoting action contaning oligosaccharides
    Publication number: 20040071824
    Abstract: A nutritional composition having beneficial effect in the gastrointestinal tract, especially an anti-adhesion effect on pathogenic micro-organisms and a bifidogenic effect, contains non-digestible oligosaccharides, said oligosaccharides comprising, per daily dosage, 0.3-10 g of oligosaccharides containing at least one terminal arabinose unit. The nutritional composition may furhermore comprise 0.5-10 g of other non-digestible oligosaccharides selected from fructo-oligosaccharides, galacto-oligosaccharides, xylo-oligosaccharides and manno-oligosaccharides. The arabino-oligosaccharides can be obtained conveniently by controlled hydrolysis of arabinose-containing polysaccharides irom natural (vegetable) origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Katrien Maria Jozefa Van Laere, Elmo Wissing