Patents by Inventor Kelly S. Schwenn (nee Rudd)

Kelly S. Schwenn (nee Rudd) 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).

  • Gel products fortified with calcium and method of preparation
    Patent number: 6077557
    Abstract: Disclosed are improved, intermediate moisture sweetened gelled food compositions fortified with calcium supplied by calcium phosphate. The gelled compositions comprise: A) about 55 to 85% by weight nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners; B) sufficient amounts of a gelling agent(s) to provide a gel strength of about 2-8 kg/cm.sup.2 ; C) about 50 to 1500 mg/oz total calcium; and D) about 9 to 20% moisture. Also disclosed are methods for the preparation of such fruit products involving forming a concentrated slurry of calcium phosphate having a particle size such that at least 90% are less than 150 .mu.m, forming a gellable blend and admixing the gellable composition with the slurry to form a gellable calcium fortofied composition and forming into desired shaped and sized pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Gordon, Kelly S. Schwenn (nee Rudd), Ann L. Ryan, Soumya Roy