Patents by Inventor Kimberley Gray

Kimberley Gray 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).

  • Publication number: 20210112829
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Zhonghua JIA, Xiaogen YANG, Chad Allen HANSEN, Charles Benjamin NAMAN, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY
  • Patent number: 10905140
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Chad Allen Hansen, Charles Benjamin Naman, Christopher Todd Simons, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray
  • Publication number: 20200022387
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Zhonghua JIA, Xiaogen YANG, Chad Allen HANSEN, Charles Benjamin NAMAN, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY
  • Patent number: 10463063
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Chad Allen Hansen, Charles Benjamin Naman, Christopher Todd Simons, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray
  • Publication number: 20190069580
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Zhonghua JIA, Xiaogen YANG, Chad Allen HANSEN, Charles Benjamin NAMAN, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY
  • Patent number: 10172378
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by sweeteners such as stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A, and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Givaudan, SA
    Inventors: Ioana Maria Ungureanu, Nicole Brune Servant, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray, Christopher Todd Simons, Jenny Ellen Evans Pennimpede
  • Publication number: 20180235259
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Zhonghua JIA, Xiaogen YANG, Chad Allen HANSEN, Charles Benjamin NAMAN, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY
  • Patent number: 9844224
    Abstract: Disclosed are bitter alkaloid-containing consumables comprising bitter blockers for a reduced alkaloid-derived bitterness and methods of forming said consumables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN SA
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Kimberley Gray, Rajesh Venkata Potineni
  • Patent number: 9451784
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by artificial sweeteners including aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate; and including stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Ioana Maria Ungureanu, Nicole Brune Servant, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray, Christopher Todd Simons, Jenny Ellen Evans Pennimpede
  • Publication number: 20160205978
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by sweeteners shuch as stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A, and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Ioana Maria UNGUREANU, Nicole Erna Irene BRUNE, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jenny Ellen EVANS PENNIMPEDE
  • Publication number: 20150313265
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Chad Allen Hansen, Charles Benjamin Naman, Christopher Todd Simons, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray
  • Publication number: 20140370177
    Abstract: A mixture of the individual ingredients stevioside and rebaudioside A provided in a ratio of stevioside to rebaudioside A of about 1:1 to about 4:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Esther Van Ommeren, Jenifer Augelli, Adam Moyle, Kimberley Gray
  • Publication number: 20140242255
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobtain), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Chad Allen Hansen, Charles Benjamin Naman, Christopher Todd Simons, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray
  • Publication number: 20140194651
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by artificial sweeteners including aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate; and including stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Ioana Maria UNGUREANU, Nicole Erna Irene BRUNE, Jay Patrick SLACK, Kimberley GRAY, Christopher Todd SIMONS, Jenny Ellen EVANS PENNIMPEDE
  • Publication number: 20140005153
    Abstract: A method of masking an off-note in an orally-receivable or -ingestible composition, including the addition thereto of an off-note masking quantity of 1-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(pyridin-4-yl)propane-1-one or a salt thereof. The effect may be further enhanced by the addition of Compound 2 and/or 2-[(3-ethyl-4,8-dimethyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen-7-yl)oxy]propanoic acid, or salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: GIVAUDAN S. A.
    Inventors: Kimberley Gray, Yili Wang, Scott Wayne Keller
  • Patent number: 8597896
    Abstract: Sucralose-binding TAS2R bitter taste receptors have been identified. Novel methods to identify modulators and in particular inhibitors to the bitter taste of sucralose, and an inhibitor, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: Nicole Erna Irene Brune, Jay Patrick Slack, Ioana Maria Ungureanu, Kimberley Gray, Christopher Todd Simons, Jenny Ellen Evans Pennimpede
  • Patent number: 8409649
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by artificial sweeteners including aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate; and including stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: Ioana Maria Ungureanu, Nicole Erna Irene Brune, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray, Christopher Todd Simons, Jenny Ellen Evans Pennimpede
  • Publication number: 20120244271
    Abstract: A method of masking a bitter aftertaste experienced in the consumption of a consumable composition, including the addition to the composition of a masking quantity of choline chloride. The proportion required is considerably less than the proportion of choline chloride used as a dietary supplement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: David C. Bom, Kimberley Gray, Rajesh Venkata Potineni, Esther Van Ommeren
  • Publication number: 20120196018
    Abstract: An orally-administrable product comprising an ingredient or ingredients that have associated with their use an unacceptable aftertaste, and a cooling compound employed as a taste-masking agent in an amount of 0.5 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Francisco Valentino Villagran, Kimberley Gray, Rajesh Venkata Potineni
  • Patent number: 8187822
    Abstract: Sucralose-binding TAS2R bitter taste receptors have been identified. Novel methods to identify modulators and in particular inhibitors to the bitter taste of sucralose, and an inhibitor, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: Nicole Erna Irene Brune, Jay Patrick Slack, Ioana Maria Ungureanu, Kimberley Gray, Christopher Todd Simons, Jenny Ellen Evans Pennimpede