Patents by Inventor Janice Baker

Janice Baker 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).

  • Preparation of filled pastas
    Patent number: 5922381
    Abstract: A process for the production of a pre-cooked, high moisture, shelf-stable or refrigerated acidified filled pasta having a filling within a dough skin which includes mixing pasta ingredients together to form a pasta dough, sheeting the dough to a sheet to form the skin of the filled pasta, encasing a filling having a water activity of from 0.93 to 0.97 and a pH of from 4.6 to 5.6 within the dough sheet to give a raw filled pasta, cooking the raw filled pasta in acidified water to a pH of 4.6 to 5.6 and a moisture content of from 45% to 65% by weight and a water activity of 0.94 to 0.995, and finally packaging the cooked pasta either with heat processing or under modified atmospheric conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Rupak Bajracharya, Janice Baker, George Cherian, Louise Barbara Wyant