Patents by Inventor Eric Kolodziejczyk

Eric Kolodziejczyk 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: 9936726
    Abstract: A food-grade encapsulate which comprises gelled proteins associated with a micronutrient, preferably a dietary mineral, as well as a process for producing the encapsulates are disclosed, with low micronutrient leakage during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Nextec S.A.
    Inventors: Ana Luiza Braga, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20170367363
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a milk concentrate comprising caseins and whey proteins in the ratio of 90:10 to 60:40, wherein the caseins/whey protein aggregates have a volume based mean diameter value Dv50 of at least 1 ?m as measured by laser diffraction. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a milk concentrate comprising the steps of providing a liquid milk concentrate, adjusting pH to 5.7-6.4, heat treating for 3-300 s at 80-150° C. and cooling to <70° C. Also, the use of the milk concentrate for producing a ready-to-drink beverage, culinary sauces and concentrated milk concentrates is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Markus Kreuss, Nicole Rohrer, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Madansinh Nathusinh Vaghela
  • Publication number: 20170367362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a milk powder comprising caseins and whey proteins wherein the powder upon reconstitution in an aqueous medium comprises casein-whey protein/fat aggregates having a mean diameter value Dv50 of at least 1 mycrom as measured by laser diffraction. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a milk powder including the steps of providing a liquid milk concentrate at T<25° C., adjusting pH to 5.7-6.4, heating at 80-150° C. for 3-300 s, cooling to below 70° C. and optionally readjusting the pH to between 6.5-6.8, drying the composition, and the milk powder obtained by this process for producing growing up milks, culinary sauces, coffee mixes, tea and coffee creamer or cocoa-malt beverages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Markus Kreuss, Nicole Rohrer, Christopher Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Madansinh Nathusinh Vaghela
  • Patent number: 8778438
    Abstract: The present invention describes an aqueous foam that includes water, at least one polysaccharide and food-grade, interfacially active particles. The present invention also describes an indulgent shelf-stable foamed food product that contains this aqueous foam. The indulgent shelf-stable foamed food products of the invention have an improved foamed and modular product texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Martins Leser, Jean-Baptiste Bezelgues, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Martin Michel
  • Publication number: 20140161938
    Abstract: A food-grade blue encapsulate is disclosed, which comprises gelled proteins associated with metal ions and a colorant component. The colorant component comprises anthocyanins, anthocyanidins, or mixtures thereof. A process for producing the encapsulate is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Ana Luiza Braga, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Elodie Sousan, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20140161939
    Abstract: A food-grade encapsulate which comprises gelled proteins associated with a micronutrient, preferably a dietary mineral, as well as a process for producing the encapsulates are disclosed, with low micronutrient leakage during storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ana Luiza Braga, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20120276243
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of food and drink compositions containing a lipid fraction. Embodiments of the present invention relate to compositions and uses to retard fat uptake from consumed products. For example, the present invention relates to a specific proteose peptone fraction and its use to retard fat hydrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Kolodziejczyk, Concetta Tedeschi, Simone Acquistapace, Lionel Jean Rene Bovetto, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Veronique Clement, Thomas Raab
  • Publication number: 20120027878
    Abstract: Natural lycopene concentrate obtained from a plant structure after alkalinization, solid-liquid separation, acidification and a second solid-liquid separation. The concentrate obtained is highly bioavailable and water-soluble at room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bortlik, Eliane Duruz, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Marie-Rose Fernandez-Graf
  • Publication number: 20100310746
    Abstract: The present invention describes an aqueous foam that includes water, at least one polysaccharide and food-grade, interfacially active particles. The present invention also describes an indulgent shelf-stable foamed food product that contains this aqueous foam. The indulgent shelf-stable foamed food products of the invention have an improved foamed and modular product texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Martin Leser, Jean-Baptiste Bezelgues, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Martin Michel
  • Publication number: 20060286187
    Abstract: Natural lycopene concentrate obtained from a plant structure after alkalinization, solid-liquid separation, acidification and a second solid-liquid separation. The concentrate obtained is highly bioavailable and water-soluble at room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bortlik, Eliane Duruz, Eric Kolodziejczyk, Marie-Rose Fernandez-Graf
  • Publication number: 20060067956
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a product taken from the group consisting of a foam, an emulsion, a foamed emulsion, a dispersed emulsion and a foamed dispersion, wherein the interface water-air, water-oil or water-solid comprises a complex formed instantaneously by the mixture of at least a protein (or peptide) and at least a polysaccharide oppositely charged or the mixture of two proteins oppositely charged, said product being in a pH range within which the electrostatic interaction between both compounds oppositely charged occurs and wherein the total amount of protein and polysaccharide is comprised between 0.01 and 5% in weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Kolodziejczyk, Christophe Schmitt