Patents by Inventor Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard 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: 20220174970
    Abstract: The present invention relates to food products comprising heat-treated liquid milk protein concentrates, and methods of producing and using these milk protein concentrates and food products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Alice Matgorzata SMIALOWSKA, Jonathan Alfred DEPREE, Mark PRITCHARD
  • Patent number: 8471002
    Abstract: Processes for producing dairy products having lower levels of neutral lipids, and/or higher levels of polar lipids, by extraction using near critical carbon dioxide or dimethyl ether. These products may be used as ingredients in infant formulas. Infant formulas containing beta-serum are also claimed. “Beta-serum” means an aqueous dairy ingredient separated from dairy streams containing greater than 60% fat which have been through phase inversion from an oil-in-water to a water-in-oil emulsion, such as the serum produced during the production of butter oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited
    Inventors: Katrina Fletcher, Owen Catchpole, John Bertram Grey, Mark Pritchard
  • Publication number: 20080139499
    Abstract: Processes for producing dairy products having lower levels of neutral lipids, and/or higher levels of polar lipids, by extraction using near critical carbon dioxide or dimethyl ether. These products may be used as ingredients in infant formulas. Infant formulas containing beta-serum are also claimed. “Beta-serum” means an aqueous dairy ingredient separated from dairy streams containing greater than 60% fat which have been through phase inversion from an oil-in- water to a water-in-oil emulsion, such as the serum produced during the production of butter oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
    Inventors: Katrina Fletcher, Owen Catchpole, John Bertram Grey, Mark Pritchard
  • Patent number: 7018665
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new processes useful for separating whey proteins from whey protein-containing solutions using a novel anion exchanger which comprises a water insoluble, hydrophilic, water swellable, hydroxy (C2–C4) alkylated and cross-linked regenerated cellulose, derivatized with quaternary amino (QA) groups where the level of substitution of the QA groups is 1.4 milli-equivalents per dry gram of anion exchanger (meq/g) or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignees: Massey University, New Zealand Dairy Board
    Inventors: John Stephen Ayers, David Francis Elgar, Kay Patricia Palmano, Mark Pritchard, Ganugapati Bijaya Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 6918499
    Abstract: A shelving display system comprising a conventional gondola made up of a generally horizontal base and at least two upstanding posts to which generally horizontal top and bottom tracks are attached. Support/display members, such as decorative panels, standards for shelf brackets and shelves, and partitions may be attached to the top and bottom tracks to complete the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Martin L. De Land, D. Mark Pritchard, Steven C. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20040144569
    Abstract: A fluid delivery system for degrading valuable items in the event on an attack is provided. A piston 30 is disposed within a cylinder 2. On demand gas under pressure can be admitted into the cylinder 2 so as to urge the piston to move towards an outlet 8, thereby expelling fluid 4 irrespective of the orientation of the delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Mark A. Pritchard, Paul D. Barretto
  • Publication number: 20040055514
    Abstract: A shelving display system comprising a conventional gondola made up of a generally horizontal base and at least two upstanding posts to which generally horizontal top and bottom tracks are attached. Support/display members, such as decorative panels, standards for shelf brackets and shelves, and partitions may be attached to the top and bottom tracks to complete the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Martin L. De Land, D. Mark Pritchard, Steven C. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6659295
    Abstract: A shelving display system comprising a conventional gondola made up of a generally horizontal base and at least two upstanding posts to which generally horizontal top and bottom tracks are attached. Support/display members, such as decorative panels, standards for shelf brackets and shelves, and partitions may be attached to the top and bottom tracks to complete the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Martin L. De Land, D. Mark Pritchard, Steven C. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6592905
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for producing an immunoglobulin enriched whey protein fraction from whey protein solutions. More particularly, it relates to the production of a whey protein fraction enriched in immunoglobulin, and optionally a whey protein isolate, using a cation exchanger under selected conditions. The selected conditions require overloading the cation exchanger with potentially absorbable protein which causes the exchanger to adsorb preferentially whey proteins other than immunoglobulin. The invention is also directed to the products produced by the process of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignees: Massey University, New Zealand Dairy Board
    Inventors: John Stephen Ayers, David Francis Elgar, Mark Pritchard
  • Publication number: 20030125525
    Abstract: The present invention provides new processes useful for separating whey proteins from whey protein-containing solutions using a novel anion exchanger which comprises a water insoluble, hydrophilic, water swellable, hydroxy (C2-C4) alkylated and cross-linked regenerated cellulose, derivatised with quaternary amino (QA) groups, wherein the level of substitution of the QA groups is 1.4 milli-equivalents per dry gram of anion exchanger (meq/g) or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: John Stephen Ayers, David Francis Elgar, Kay Patricia Palmano, Mark Pritchard, Ganugapti Bijaya Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 6555659
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the purification of glycomacropeptide (GMP) with an amino acid composition containing no greater that 0.5% (w/w) phenylalanine, comprising the steps of contacting a GMP-containing feedstock with a first anion exchanger under conditions to adsorb the GMP, eluting the adsorbed GMP from the anion exchanger and removing impurities from the GMP-containing eluate by either: (i) contacting the GMP-containing eluate with a cation exchanger in conditions under which the impurities in the eluate are adsorbed onto the cation exchanger, or (ii) precipitating the impurities in GMP-containing eluate using conditions in which the GMP remains i solution, or (iii) contacting the GMP-containing eluate with a second anion exchanger in conditions under which the impurities in the eluate are adsorbed onto the anion exchanger, and recovering the GMP from whichever one or more of the steps (i), (ii) or (iii) was used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Inventors: John Stephen Ayers, Kay Patricia Coolbear, David Francis Elgar, Mark Pritchard
  • Patent number: 6528622
    Abstract: A preparative method of isolating a preselected whey protein or group of whey proteins from a solution is provided. The method comprises the following steps: (a) contacting a whey protein solution with the preselected ion exchanger for a time and at a temperature sufficient to enable the preselected whey protein to be adsorbed; wherein the whey protein solution has (1) a protein content in the range of about 5% to about 20% by weight, (2) a pH of a preselected level, which is the level at which the preselected whey protein or group of whey proteins selectively binds to the preselected ion exchanger, and (3) a reduced ionic strength; and (b) recovering either or both of the following: (1) the whey protein component adsorbed in step (a), and (2) the breakthrough whey protein component not adsorbed in step (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignees: Massey University, New Zealand Dairy Board
    Inventors: John Stephen Ayers, David Francis Elgar, Mark Pritchard
  • Patent number: 6520355
    Abstract: A shelving display system comprising a conventional gondola made up of a generally horizontal base and at least two upstanding posts to which generally horizontal top and bottom tracks are attached. Support/display members, such as decorative panels, standards for shelf brackets and shelves, and partitions may be attached to the top and bottom tracks to complete the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: David Mark Pritchard, Joseph Anthony Sawicki
  • Patent number: 6457595
    Abstract: A system including modular components by which the system may be configured and reconfigured easily and quickly for the shelving or the storage of merchandise for the retail industry and other applications as needed and without the need for tools and conventional removable fastening means. The modular system includes a generally horizontal base and at least one vertical panel that can be easily and quickly releasably secured in one or other positions relative to the base. Preferred embodiments of the system include those having a base having securement apertures structured such that the vertical panel or panels may be releasably secured to the base without the need for conventional removable mechanical fasteners and tools and so that even an unskilled individual can quickly and easily arrange and rearrange the vertical panels relative to the base in a wide variety of possible useful configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: David Mark Pritchard, Antonio Vardaro
  • Patent number: D508511
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chris Christou, Raun Forsyth, Marcus Hoggarth, Mark Pritchard, Morten Warren, Nick Woodley, Sam Lucente, Shizunori S. Kobara
  • Patent number: D522570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chris Christou, Raun Forsyth, Marcus Hoggarth, Mark Pritchard, Morten Warren, Nick Woodley, Sam Lucente, Shizunori S. Kobara, Michael D. Derocher