Patents by Inventor Olaf Kortum

Olaf Kortum 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).

  • Patent number: 7597917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making shaped bread snacks comprising the steps of grinding baked dough material having a water activity of 0.85 to 0.99 into crumbs, optionally mixing the crumbs with small amounts of common food ingredients, heating the crumbs or the crumb mixture to a temperature in the range of about 70° C. to 80° C. and readjusting the water activity to about the value of the original baked dough material, hot moulding the crumbs or crumb mixture to a snack carrier of any desired shape, filling the snack carrier with a sweet, savory or any other filling, and packaging the obtained shaped bread snack and to the shaped bread snacks obtainable by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Kraft Foods R&D, Inc.
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum
  • Patent number: 7595073
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for retarding lipid oxidation in food products. More specifically, this invention relates to the use of antioxidant compositions containing effective amounts of siderophores and organic acids to retard lipid oxidation in food products. The present invention also relates to food products containing such lipid oxidation-retarding compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventors: Cheryl Baldwin, Ahmad Akashe, Robert Dinwoodie, Rathna Koka, Leslie G. West, Olaf Kortum
  • Publication number: 20060110514
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making shaped bread snacks comprising the steps of grinding baked dough material having a water activity of 0.85 to 0.99 into crumbs, optionally mixing the crumbs with small amounts of common food ingredients, heating the crumbs or the crumb mixture to a temperature in the range of about 70° C. to 80° C. and readjusting the water activity to about the value of the original baked dough material, hot moulding the crumbs or crumb mixture to a snack carrier of any desired shape, filling the snack carrier with a sweet, savory or any other filling, and packaging the obtained shaped bread snack and to the shaped bread snacks obtainable by this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum
  • Publication number: 20050112243
    Abstract: A packaged food product comprises at least one low moisture component and at least one hermetically sealed high moisture component located on top of the low moisture component, the package comprising an outer shell and an inner package component which is slidably removable through a constriction in the outer shell so as to allow the high moisture component to be spread on top of the low moisture component and to constitute the uppermost component of the combined food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Joachim Bellmann, Olaf Kortum, Michael Paton
  • Publication number: 20040170728
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for retarding lipid oxidation in food products. More specifically, this invention relates to the use of antioxidant compositions containing effective amounts of siderophores and organic acids to retard lipid oxidation in food products. The present invention also relates to food products containing such lipid oxidation-retarding compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Baldwin, Ahmad Akashe, Robert Dinwoodie, Rathna Koka, Leslie G. West, Olaf Kortum
  • Publication number: 20040156970
    Abstract: A cheese-based preparation containing
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.
    Inventors: Olaf Kortum, Anno Kaiser
  • Patent number: 6753026
    Abstract: A process for making bread snacks with fillings of high water content is disclosed and the snacks have shelf lives at chilled or ambient temperatures of more than six weeks. Baked bread is used as raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Kraft Foods R & D Inc.
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum
  • Publication number: 20030031761
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for making bread snacks with fillings of high water content and shelf lives at chilled or ambient temperatures of more than six weeks, baked bread being used as raw material, and the bread snacks obtainable by that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum
  • Publication number: 20020058091
    Abstract: A food product (10) comprises at least two components (14, 16) with different moisture and/or fat contents and at least one pouch (18, 24), at least partially enclosing one of the components (16), preferably a high-moisture component, and is characterized in that the open end (22) of the pouch (18) is turned back so as to form a cuff and so as to be exposed to the outside of the food product (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.,
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum
  • Patent number: RE44810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making shaped bread snacks comprising the steps of grinding baked dough material having a water activity of 0.85 to 0.99 into crumbs, optionally mixing the crumbs with small amounts of common food ingredients, heating the crumbs or the crumb mixture to a temperature in the range of about 70° C. to 80° C. and readjusting the water activity to about the value of the original baked dough material, hot moulding the crumbs or crumb mixture to a snack carrier of any desired shape, filling the snack carrier with a sweet, savory or any other filling, and packaging the obtained shaped bread snack and to the shaped bread snacks obtainable by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kraft Foods R&D, Inc.
    Inventor: Olaf Kortum