Patents by Inventor George C. Rutt

George C. Rutt 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).

  • Publication number: 20220030907
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and protein compositions having advantageous properties, such as a high uncorrected limiting amino acid score as well as favorable amounts of essential amino acids, branched chain amino acids, as well as other amino acids more difficult to find in the regular diet. The protein composition is obtainable as taught herein from algal or microbial biomass. The protein composition produced according to the methods of the invention provides a proteinaceous food or food ingredient that is more nutritionally balanced (and therefore nutritionally superior) to protein compositions otherwise available. The protein material is advantageously used as a food or food ingredient for humans and/or animals. Also provided are methods of producing the protein material from biomass sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes Scholten, Arun Lakshmanaswamy, Joel Burke, George C. Rutt
  • Publication number: 20220000141
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is cellular biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the cellular biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content and has pleasing organoleptic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo, Daniel G. Dueppen
  • Patent number: 11213048
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content without the unacceptable organoleptic properties that typically accompany proteins and food ingredients from these sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Smallfood, Inc.
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo
  • Patent number: 11122817
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is cellular biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the cellular biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content and has pleasing organoleptic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Smallfood Inc.
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo, Daniel G. Dueppen
  • Publication number: 20170208835
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content without the unacceptable organoleptic properties that typically accompany proteins and food ingredients from these sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: George C. RUTT, James H. FLATT, Peter DOMAILLE, Gerardo V. TOLEDO
  • Publication number: 20170208834
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and protein compositions having advantageous properties, such as a high uncorrected limiting amino acid score as well as favorable amounts of essential amino acids, branched chain amino acids, as well as other amino acids more difficult to find in the regular diet. The protein composition is obtainable as taught herein from algal or microbial biomass. The protein composition produced according to the methods of the invention provides a proteinaceous food or food ingredient that is more nutritionally balanced (and therefore nutritionally superior) to protein compositions otherwise available. The protein material is advantageously used as a food or food ingredient for humans and/or animals. Also provided are methods of producing the protein material from biomass sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes Scholten, Arun Lakshmanaswamy, Joel Burke, George C. Rutt
  • Publication number: 20170196238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content without the unacceptable organoleptic properties that typically accompany proteins and food ingredients from these sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo
  • Publication number: 20170020159
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content without the unacceptable organoleptic properties that typically accompany proteins and food ingredients from these sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo
  • Publication number: 20160135480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protein material and food ingredient from a sustainable and stable source. The sustainable and stable source of the food or food ingredient is cellular biomass, for example an algal or microbial biomass. The invention discloses that the cellular biomass can be subjected to a series of steps to derive the protein material and food or food ingredient, which has high nutritional content and has pleasing organoleptic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: George C. Rutt, James H. Flatt, Peter Domaille, Gerardo V. Toledo