Patents by Inventor Madeleine Merz

Madeleine Merz 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).

  • Reduced-fat fluid lactic cream which avoids phase separation during storage
    Patent number: 6139896
    Abstract: A fluid lactic cream which has a fat content in an amount, by weight, between 10% and 30% and which has been treated by an ultra-high temperature ("UHT") treatment or other sterilization procedure or by pasteurization to provide a cream product for unrefrigerated or refrigerated storage and which contains an additive component for controlling viscosity which is in an amount so that the composition has a viscosity between 250 and 1600 mPas and which is chosen from a group of (i) a modified starch in an amount, by weight, between 1.5 and 4%, or (ii) a mixture of modified starch and maltodextrin wherein, by weight, the modified starch is in an amount between 1.5 and 4% and the maltodextrin is in an amount between 1 and 4%, or (iii) a mixture of maltodextrin and xanthan wherein, by weight, the maltodextrin is in an amount between 1.5 and 4% and the xanthan is in an amount between 0.1 and 0.4%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Martine Daenzer-Alloncle, Niklaus Meister, Madeleine Merz