Patents by Inventor Harald Klotzbach

Harald Klotzbach 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).

  • Flowable food heating with burning prevention
    Patent number: 10813501
    Abstract: The method prevents or inhibits, during a heating process, burning in a food heating device (20) of a flowable food substance against a heating surface (6) delimiting or contained in a device's cavity (21) that contains the food substance. The heating device comprises an agitator (4) movable in the cavity (21). The method includes the steps of: introducing the flowable food substance into the cavity (21); heating the heating surface (6) and moving the agitator (4) at an agitator speed (41,42) to generate in the cavity (21) a flow of the food substance over the heating surface (6) and in contact therewith; and disturbing the flow of the food substance to break and/or causing asymmetric flow of the food substance in the cavity (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Gerd Helf, Harald Klotzbach, Alessandro Molinaro, Bo Su