Patents by Inventor Narayasaswami Subramanian

Narayasaswami Subramanian 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).

  • Cold water soluble tea
    Publication number: 20030203071
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a black leaf tea that is infusible in hot or cold water. The process involves macerating freshly plucked tea leaves, allowing them to ferment, firing the leaves to arrest fermentation and then drying them to yield black leaf tea, wherein the tea leaves are treated with a solubilising compound selected ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, 1-scorbamic acid, 5-phenyl-3,4-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone (4-phenyl-2,3-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone) or their salts and mixtures thereof in an amount that is sufficient for the black leaf tea to be soluble in water at 5 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco., Inc.
    Inventors: Velu Ganesan, Shovan Ganguli, Kush Garg, Mushtaq Patel, Vilas Pandurang Sinkar, Narayasaswami Subramanian
  • Cold water soluble tea
    Patent number: 6589575
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a black leaf tea that is infusible in hot or cold water. The process involves macerating freshly plucked tea leaves, allowing them to ferment, firing the leaves to arrest fermentation and then drying them to yield black leaf tea, wherein the tea leaves are treated with a solubilising compound selected ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, 1-scorbamic acid, 5-phenyl-3,4-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone (4-phenyl-2,3-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone) or their salts and mixtures thereof in an amount that is sufficient for the black leaf tea to be soluble in water at 5 to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Velu Ganesan, Shovan Ganguli, Kush Garg, Mushtaq Patel, Vilas Pandurang Sinkar, Narayasaswami Subramanian
  • Cold water soluble tea
    Publication number: 20010033880
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a black leaf tea that is infusible in hot or cold water. The process involves macerating freshly plucked tea leaves, allowing them to ferment, firing the leaves to arrest fermentation and then drying them to yield black leaf tea, wherein the tea leaves are treated with a solubilising compound selected ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, 1-scorbamic acid, 5-phenyl-3,4-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone (4-phenyl-2,3-diketo-gamma-butyrolactone) or their salts and mixtures thereof in an amount that is sufficient for the black leaf tea to be soluble in water at 5 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Velu Ganesan, Shovan Ganguli, Kush Garg, Mushtaq Patel, Vilas Pandurang Sinkar, Narayasaswami Subramanian