Patents by Inventor Mark V. Hembling

Mark V. Hembling 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).

  • Quick-setting gel mix
    Patent number: 6565901
    Abstract: A quick-setting gel mix suitable for preparing dessert gels contains sodium and/or potassium alginate and a slowly-soluble calcium salt, with the calcium salt being incorporated in a crystalline sugar product comprised of aggregates of fondant-size sugar crystals. Preferably the mix contains an anti-oxidant, such as ascorbic acid, and a catalyst, such as copper gluconate, in amounts effective to promote clarity with the gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark V. Hembling, Robert R. Cassanelli, Steven J. Leusner
  • Food products
    Publication number: 20030008057
    Abstract: The invention relates to the discovery of a composition, for example, a beverage, that includes desirable benefits. Such desirable benefits can include, for example, levels of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, factors or compounds that confer healthful benefits, levels of carbohydrate or fiber content, pleasing taste and flavor sensation, pleasing consistency or “mouthfeel”, and lower calorie content. The invention also relates to methods of making the composition and methods of using the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Michael P. Hynes, Kathryn Kaufman, Mark V. Hembling
  • Food products
    Publication number: 20020192350
    Abstract: The invention relates to the discovery of a composition, for example, a beverage, that includes desirable benefits. Such desirable benefits can include, for example, levels of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, factors or compounds that confer healthful benefits, levels of carbohydrate or fiber content, pleasing taste and flavor sensation, pleasing consistency or “mouthfeel”, and lower calorie content. The invention also relates to methods of making the composition and methods of using the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Michael P. Hynes, Kathryn Kaufman, Mark V. Hembling
  • Quick-setting gel mix
    Patent number: 5997937
    Abstract: A quick-setting gel mix suitable for preparing dessert gels with improved clarity contains sodium and/or potassium alginate, a slowly-soluble calcium salt, an anti-oxidant, such as ascorbic acid, and a catalyst, such as copper gluconate and/or ferric sulfate, in amounts effective to promote clarity within the gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Kraft Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark V. Hembling, Steven J. Leusner, Joseph E. Spradlin
  • Quick-setting dessert gel mix
    Patent number: 5389393
    Abstract: A dry mix for producing a quick-setting gel which has a texture which is as desirable as gelatin gels. The mix contains as components agglomerated potassium or sodium alginate, agglomerated calcium salt, sweetening agents, food acids, buffering agents and preferably anti-oxidant. The sweetening agents can be sugars, intensive sweeteners and/or hydrolyzed starches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark V. Hembling, Lawrence T. McCarty, Julia A. Stephenson, Eva C. Szewczyk, Charles W. Bertalan, Joseph P. DeStephano