Patents by Inventor Frances L. Turnak

Frances L. Turnak 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).

  • Process for producing a pharmaceutical tablet using a homozygous white starch
    Patent number: 5292519
    Abstract: The use of a starch obtained from a plant source that is homozygous in a white recessive gene, such as white common corn starch, has superior compression and ejection forces compared to commercial disintegrantants/binders. The starch derived from common corn containing the homozygous white recessive gene was also found to have comparable whiteness to commercial bleached corn starches used in tableting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: American Maize Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Mauro, Frances L. Turnak
  • Method for making a reduced fat product
    Patent number: 5094872
    Abstract: The method for making a reduced fat foodstuff entails replacing at least a portion of the fat and/or oil in the foodstuff with a high amylose starch hydrolysate having an apparent amylose content above about 40% and a DE greater than 5 and less than 15.0. A high amylose corn starch is the preferred starch base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: American Maize-Products Company
    Inventors: Susan L. Furcsik, David J. Mauro, Leonard Kornacki, Eugene J. Faron, Frances L. Turnak, Roger Owen