Patents by Inventor Ivar Assinder

Ivar Assinder 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).

  • Method of heat processing foodstuff
    Patent number: 5652006
    Abstract: A method of processing a solid foodstuff, such as a meat portion or portion of plant foodstuff, by a heating and cooling cycle in which the environmental pressure applied to the foodstuff is controlled during heating so that, at a maximum target temperature, all parts of the body of the foodstuff are conformed to this target temperature due to flow of water, transiently in the vapour phase, from hotter regions to cooler regions. In particular, at least when the target temperature is nominally attained, the pressure is set to the saturated vapour pressure of the foodstuff at the maximum target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Ivar Assinder, Robert David Jones, Peter Wilding, Peter Richard Stephenson
  • Food processing method to avoid non-enzymatic browning
    Patent number: 4640840
    Abstract: Non-enzymatic browning and other quality deteriorating reactions during heat-processing of liquid foodstuffs are minimized by separately aseptically heat-processing the carbohydrate containing components and the nitrogeneous components and finally combining these processed materials at a temperature of at most 65.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivar Assinder, Michael K. Supran, Geoffrey A. K. Thompson