Patents by Inventor Michael F. Cleary

Michael F. Cleary 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).

  • METHOD FOR ADDING FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS TO HYDROCOLLOID BASES THAT REQUIRE COOKING
    Publication number: 20100003390
    Abstract: Functional components are often cooked with hydrocolloid bases to create a more palatable and nutritional product. Mixing the functional components and hydrocolloid base together and cooking the mixture often results in damage to the functional components. The damage caused to the functional components result in a reduction in the potency of the functional components or may otherwise adversely affect the functional components. Conversely, adding the functional components to the hydrocolloid base after the base has been cooked and cooled minimizes the damage caused to the functional components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: Avid Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Rifkin, Mary Ann Galloway, ND, Michael F. Cleary
  • Mineral enriched sugar beet
    Patent number: 5043171
    Abstract: Mineral enriched sugar beets as a nutritional source of dietary fiber made by contacting, in an aqueous environment, sugar beets and an assimilable source of the mineral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: American Crystal Sugar Company
    Inventors: Stanley E. Bichsel, Michael F. Cleary, Roland F. Olson
  • Mineral enriched sugar beet
    Patent number: 4938974
    Abstract: A process for producing a milled mineral-enriched sugar beet composition as a nutritional source of dietary fiber, and products therefrom, is disclosed. Specifically, the process involves contacting sugar beets with an assimilable source of the mineral at a temperature below about 50.degree. C., and milling the enriched sugar beets to a powdered or granulated composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: American Crystal Sugar Company
    Inventors: Stanley E. Bichsel, Michael F. Cleary, Roland F. Olson