Patents by Inventor Locus Y. Chuang

Locus Y. Chuang 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).

  • Patent number: 5968580
    Abstract: As aspartame-sweetened, acidic beverage mix is formulated wherein at least 20% of the aspartame is in bulk (i.e., needle-shaped crystalline particles) form and least 35% of the aspartame is coated onto acid particles. The beverage mix is well suited for powdered, sugar-free, ice tea mixes, particularly fruit-flavored mixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Inc.
    Inventors: Locus Y. Chuang, Rita W. Brander, Randall R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 4529613
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved cloud system which imparts enhanced mouthfeel and optimum opacity to a reconstituted beverage-mix. The cloud system is composed of a water-soluble polymeric carrier component, a pectin stabilizing agent and titanium dioxide as the opacifying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph F. Mezzino, Locus Y. Chuang
  • Patent number: 4449906
    Abstract: An extrusion nozzle arrangement for the production of a product such as a comestible, including a multiple nozzle arrangement through which there can be fabricated a multi-layered slab of a meat analogue product. A bacon-like appearance is achieved in that each extrusion nozzle includes a narrow, elongate bottom outlet orifice arranged to extend transversely above a continually moving horizontal conveyor belt. An insert strip is arranged within the nozzle above the orifice and coextensive with the length thereof, which includes projections extending across the path of flow of the solution extruded through the orifice, with such projections being positioned in a predetermined manner along the insert strip as to cause either restrictions or directional changes in the flow of the solution egressing from the nozzle orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Boleslaw Sienkiewicz, Franklin Kramer, Imrich Klein, C. G. Peter Oldershaw, Locus Y. Chuang