Patents by Inventor Holger Kuehner

Holger Kuehner 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).

  • Package containing a milk product or milk substitute product
    Patent number: 6488974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package for dispensing a foamed milk product. This package includes an aerosol can which contains a liquid phase in which a propellant gas is dissolved. The can is provided with a valve and a nozzle immediately downstream of the valve for spraying and foaming of the liquid phase. The nozzle has a central borehole and at least one lateral orifice which opens into an outlet tube. As the liquid phase is dispensed through the nozzle, a foam is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Holger Kuehner, Otto-Michael Wild, Michael Schwan, Franz Haslinger
  • Process for producing a sterile milk pap
    Patent number: 5814363
    Abstract: A sterile, degassed milk pap containing milk and a swollen cereal product is prepared by mixing heated milk with a cereal product to swell the cereal product during mixing, and after which, the mixture is heated further so that vegetative microbes are destroyed, the further-heated mixture is degassed to avoid oxidation of the mixture, the degassed mixture is heated under ultra-high-temperature conditions to sterilize the mixture, and then, the sterilized mixture is cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Holger Kuehner