Patents by Inventor Mustapha Merabet

Mustapha Merabet 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).

  • Container for heating rapidly and evenly frozen foods in a microwave oven
    Patent number: 6486455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for cooking food in a microwave oven. The container includes a tray having a bottom wall and a side wall that is attached to the bottom wall and extends upwardly from the bottom wall to define an interior cavity and a support means to provide support for a food product and elevate the food product with respect to the bottom wall. A continuous shielding layer is provided in the bottom wall and the side wall of the tray. The bottom wall and side wall of the tray along with the bottom of the food product define a free space under the food product that totally reflects microwave beams that pass through the food product back in the direction of the food product. The container of the invention reduces the formation of temperature gradients in the food product when it is heated and accelerates the microwave reheating of the food product. The container is particularly useful for reheating large blocks of frozen food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Mustapha Merabet
  • Method for reconstituting a frozen product with microwaves
    Patent number: 6294215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a frozen food product having enhanced coupling properties with microwaves. The method involves providing a non-frozen food product, adding to the non-frozen food product an amount of carbon dioxide in the form of dry-ice, and freezing the food product containing the carbon dioxide to provide a frozen food product and allowing the carbon dioxide to sublime to form gas bubbles distributed within the frozen food product. The invention also relates to a frozen food product prepared by the method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Mustapha Merabet
  • Microwave thawing using micro-emulsions
    Patent number: 6149954
    Abstract: An edible water-in-oil micro-emulsion for thawing of a food product which is subjected to microwave energy and the use of such an edible water-in-oil micro-emulsion for thawing is described. Further described is a frozen food product comprising an edible water-in-oil micro-emulsion effective for enhancing thawing of the food product and to the process of providing such a frozen food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Mustapha Merabet
  • Edible micro-emulsion and method of preparing a food product treated with the micro-emulsion
    Patent number: 5891490
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an edible oil-in-water micro-emulsion for imparting crisping and browning to a food product when the micro-emulsion is coated onto the food product and the coated food product is then subjected to microwave radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Mustapha Merabet