Patents by Inventor Mary Ann Augustin
Mary Ann Augustin 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).
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Publication number: 20220273571Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and products comprising a probiotic entrapped or encapsulated in a protein and carbohydrate matrix, sourced from a single non-fermented biomass and methods of producing thereof. In addition, the present invention provides methods for promoting health in a subject comprising administering a probiotic to a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Mary Ann AUGUSTIN, Luz SANGUANSRI, Michael CONLON, Mya Myintzu HLAING
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Publication number: 20220160802Abstract: The present invention provides methods for promoting health in a subject, comprising administering to a subject a Brassicaceae product fermented with lactic acid bacteria. In addition the present invention compositions and delivery vehicles for promoting health in a subject, comprising administering to a subject a Brassicaceae product fermented with lactic acid bacteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mary Ann AUGUSTIN, Netsanet SHIFERAW TEREFE, Michael CONLON, Paul BLATCHFORD
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Publication number: 20210329942Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to protein-carbohydrate composites for use as food ingredients, to processes for the preparation of said composites, to their use in the preparation of food products, and food products comprising said composites. In some embodiments the disclosure relates to the use of protein-carbohydrate composites and processes for their production for use in the preparation of meat mimetic food products.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Nicholas John Gerald Hazell, Danyang Ying, Mary Ann Augustin, Peerasak Sanguansri
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Publication number: 20210100751Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing an emulsion or suspension from a biomass. The invention also relates to producing a powder or products produced therefrom. The invention also relates to an emulsion or suspension produced by a method as described herein. The invention also relates to a powder produced by a method as described herein or products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Mary Ann AUGUSTIN, Luz SANGUANSRI
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Publication number: 20210092981Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a sugar reduced product from biomass comprising treating the biomass with fermentation enzymes. In an embodiment, treating with fermentation enzymes comprises fermentation. The present invention also relates to sugar reduced products produced by such methods and methods of producing fermentation enzymes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Mary Ann AUGUSTIN, Netsanet SHIFERAW TEREFE, Mya Myintzu HLAING
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Patent number: 10785991Abstract: A method of preparing an encapsulated phospholipid oil-in-water emulsion comprising: preparing an oil-in-water pre-emulsion comprising a phospholipid-containing oil and mixing the oil-in-water pre-emulsion with an encapsulant material.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin, Zhiping Shen
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Publication number: 20200255872Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing isothiocyanate containing products from Brassicaceae material and lactic acid bacteria for use in such methods. The present invention also relates to isothiocyanate containing products from Brassicaceae material produced by such methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Mary Ann AUGUSTIN, Netsanet SHIFERAW TEREFE
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Patent number: 9592201Abstract: A micro encapsulation material for use with storage unstable, therapeutic and nutritional agents which release the therapeutic and nutritional agents in predetermined locations in the gastro intestinal tract in which the microencapsulation material is formed by combining a food grade treated carbohydrate with a water soluble food grade protein. The therapeutic and nutritional agents form an oil phase which is emulsified with the water dispersed or dissolved encapsulant to encapsulate the therapeutic and nutritional agents. These agents may be oils or oil soluble or oil dispersible. The agents that may be encapsulated include lipids (oils including oxygen sensitive oils, fatty acids, triglycerides) and oil soluble and oil dispersible ingredients (including pharmaceuticals, probiotics, protein therapeutics and bioactives). The protein used may include any film forming water soluble protein or hydrolyzed protein and includes milk proteins such as casein and its derivatives or whey proteins.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Richard Head, Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin
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Patent number: 9371502Abstract: A method of extracting recovering oil from vegetable material in which oil bearing material is heated and subjected to sonication at least one frequency above 400 kHz, removing a first yield of oil by decanting and subjecting the retained material to centrifugal separation to separate out a second yield of oil. Preferably the raw vegetable material is passed through a screw press and the obtained material is heated and subjected to the ultrasonic treatment and then allowed to settle for a predetermined period before decanting the oil layer. Preferably two frequencies above 400 kHz are used, one below 1 MHz and the second from 1 MHz. There are many potential transducers arrangements possible for producing standing waves.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Pablo Juliano, Raymond Mawson, Piotr Swiergon, Kai Knoerzer
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Patent number: 9328313Abstract: A method of extracting recovering oil from vegetable material in which oil bearing material is heated and subjected to sonication at least one frequency above 400 kHz, removing a first yield of oil by decanting and subjecting the retained material to centrifugal separation to separate out a second yield of oil. Preferably the raw vegetable material is passed through a screw press and the obtained material is heated and subjected to the ultrasonic treatment and then allowed to settle for a predetermined period before decanting the oil layer. Preferably two frequencies above 400 kHz are used, one below 1 MHz and the second from 1 MHz. There are many potential transducers arrangements possible for producing standing waves.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Pablo Juliano, Raymond Mawson, Piotr Swiergon, Kai Knoerzer
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Publication number: 20160058039Abstract: A method of preparing an encapsulated phospholipid oil-in-water emulsion comprising: preparing an oil-in-water pre-emulsion comprising a phospholipid-containing oil and mixing the oil-in-water pre-emulsion with an encapsulant material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin, Zhiping Shen
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Patent number: 8871266Abstract: Probiotic microorganisms are micro encapsulated by dispersing the probiotic microorganism in an aqueous suspension of a film forming protein and a carbohydrate; in an oil in water emulsion of a film forming protein and a carbohydrate and a fat; or in an oil which is subsequently dispersed in a film forming protein and a carbohydrate. The emulsion or suspension may be dried to form a powder. The probiotic may be dispersed in oil and then emulsified with the aqueous suspension and then dried to produce an encapsulated oil be dried to produce a powder. Oil suspended probiotics may be preferred where the probiotic is water sensitive. The preferred protein is casein or whey protein and the carbohydrate may be a resistant starch or a saccharide with a reducing sugar group. Where the probiotic is oxygen sensitive the protein carbohydrate is heated to create Maillard reaction products in the encapsulating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Ross Crittenden, Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin
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Publication number: 20140206890Abstract: A method of extracting recovering oil from vegetable material in which oil bearing material is heated and subjected to sonication at least one frequency above 400 kHz, removing a first yield of oil by decanting and subjecting the retained material to centrifugal separation to separate out a second yield of oil. Preferably the raw vegetable material is passed through a screw press and the obtained material is heated and subjected to the ultrasonic treatment and then allowed to settle for a predetermined period before decanting the oil layer. Preferably two frequencies above 400 kHz are used, one below 1 MHz and the second from 1 MHz. There are many potential transducers arrangements possible for producing standing waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Pablo Juliano, Raymond Mawson, Piotr Swiergon, Kai Knoerzer
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Publication number: 20130230624Abstract: Lignocellulosic biomass is treated to increase accessibility of the material to enzymes and fermentative processes. Accessibility is increased by physical pre-treatment of the biomass using ultrasound and/or microwave and/or cool plasma. The physical treatments degrade the waxy cuticle of the biomass facilitating enzyme accessibility to cellulose and hemicellulose for conversion to utilizable matter, in nutritive and chemical or biofuel industries. These physical treatments improve enzyme accessibility to cellulose and hemicellulose, for enhancing conversion into a range of feed stocks amenable to further processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Geoffrey John Dumsday, Raymond Mawson, Christine Maree Oliver, Laurence David Melton
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Patent number: 7374788Abstract: Oxygen sensitive oils or oils containing oil soluble oxygen sensitive substances are encapsulated in proteins which have been reacted with carbohydrates that contain reducing sugar groups. An aqueous mixture of a protein preferably casein and a carbohydrate preferably a sugar is heated within the range of 60 to 160° C. so that Maillard reaction products are formed in the aqueous mixture. The oil phase, up to 50% by weight is then emulsified with the aqueous phase to form micro encapsulated oil particles. The formation of MRP may also be done after emulsification prior to drying. The emulsions can be used as food ingredients or dried to form powders.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Science CentreInventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Luz Sanguansri
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Publication number: 20070218125Abstract: A micro encapsulation material for use with storage unstable, therapeutic and nutritional agents which release the therapeutic and nutritional agents in predetermined locations in the gastro intestinal tract in which the microencapsulation material is formed by combining a food grade treated carbohydrate with a water soluble food grade protein. The therapeutic and nutritional agents form an oil phase which is emulsified with the water dispersed or dissolved encapsulant to encapsulate the therapeutic and nutritional agents. These agents may be oils or oil soluble or oil dispersible. The agents that may be encapsulated Include lipids (oils Including oxygen sensitive oils, fatty acids, triglycerides) and oil soluble and oil dispersible ingredients (including pharmaceuticals, probiotics, protein therapeutics and bioactives). The protein used may include any film forming water soluble protein or hydrolysed protein and includes milk proteins such as casein and its derivatives or whey proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2004Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Richard Head, Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin
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Publication number: 20070122397Abstract: Probiotic microorganisms are micro encapsulated by dispersing the probiotic microorganism in an aqueous suspension of a film forming protein and a carbohydrate; in an oil in water emulsion of a film forming protein and a carbohydrate and a fat; or in an oil which is subsequently dispersed in a film forming protein and a carbohydrate. The emulsion or suspension may be dried to form a powder. The probiotic may be dispersed in oil and then emulsified with the aqueous suspension and then dried to produce an encapsulated oil be dried to produce a powder. Oil suspended probiotics may be preferred where the probiotic is water sensitive. The preferred protein is casein or whey protein and the carbohydrate may be a resistant starch or a saccharide with a reducing sugar group. Where the probiotic is oxygen sensitive the protein carbohydrate is heated to create Maillard reaction products in the encapsulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2004Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: Luz Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin, Ross Crittenden
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Patent number: 6991823Abstract: A calcium and/or nutritional mineral fortified milk or milk powder product utilizes pyrophosphates or orthophosphates in combination with maintenance of pH within the range of 6.5 to 7.5 to render the milk heat stable. Additional calcium and/or nutritional mineral is added in soluble form either before or after the phosphate addition. The preferred orthophosphates are one or more of monosodium dihydrogen orthophosphate, disodium hydrogen orthophosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, monopotassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate and tri potassium orthophosphate. Addition of an alkaline agent to adjust the pH is not needed if an appropriate mix of orthophosphates is used. The milk products or milk products recombined from milk powders are heat stable and do not have the problems of translucency, gritty mouth feel or sedimentation which can be associated with other stabilized fortified milks.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization Centre, Dairy Research & Development Corp.Inventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Roderick Patterson Winfield Williams
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Publication number: 20030185960Abstract: Oxygen sensitive oils or oils containing oil soluble oxygen sensitive substances are encapsulated in proteins which have been reacted with carbohydrates that contain reducing sugar groups. An aqueous mixture of a protein preferably casein and a carbohydrate preferably a sugar is heated within the range of 60 to 160° C. so that Maillard reaction products are formed in the aqueous mixture. The oil phase, up to 50% by weight is then emulsified with the aqueous phase to form micro encapsulated oil particles. The formation of MRP may also be done after emulsification prior to drying.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2002Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Luz Sanguansri
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Publication number: 20030165597Abstract: A calcium and/or nutritional mineral fortified milk or milk powder product utilises pyrophosphates or orthophosphates in combination with maintenance of pH within the range of 6.5 to 7.5 to render the milk heat stable. Additional calcium and/or nutritional mineral is added in soluble form either before or after the phosphate addition. The preferred orthophosphates are one or more of monosodium dihydrogen orthophosphate, disodium hydrogen orthophosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, monopotassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate and tri potassium orthophosphate. Addition of an alkaline agent to adjust the pH is not needed if an appropriate mix of orthophosphates is used. The milk products or milk products recombined from milk powders are heat stable and do not have the problems of translucency, gritty mouth feel or sedimentation which can be associated with other stabilised fortified milks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2002Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Mary Ann Augustin, Roderick Patterson Winfield Williams