Patents by Inventor Ralph M. Trksak
Ralph M. Trksak 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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Patent number: 8956679Abstract: The present invention relates to a starch composition with high total dietary fiber (TDF) that retains its TDF upon processing. In particular, over 50% of such fiber is retained upon extrusion processing. Such starch is useful in the manufacture of high fiber food products, including extruded products such as breakfast cereals and snacks.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Corn Products Development Inc.Inventors: Monika Okoniewska, Ian L. Brown, Wolfgang Bindzus, Ralph M. Trksak
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Patent number: 8481717Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of making a starch crosslinked with sodium trimetaphosphate or with a combination of sodium trimetaphosphate and sodium tripolyphosphate. The reaction has increased efficiency over the standard crosslinking process and/or reduced phosphorus effluent.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Corn Products Development Inc.Inventor: Ralph M. Trksak
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Patent number: 7422638Abstract: Sago-based gelling starches and the use thereof. Such modified starches exhibit exceptionally fast gelling properties, high gel strengths, and exceptional elasticity. These properties allow for significantly reduced processing times, including reduced hold times. Further, the higher gel strength allows for reduced starch levels without loss of final product gel strength integrity or texture. The instant gelling starches are particularly useful in food systems of the type that gel upon standing, such as pie and cream fillings, puddings, spreads, and jellies.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2003Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Ralph M. Trksak, Patrick J. Ford
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Publication number: 20080207894Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of making a starch crosslinked with sodium trimetaphosphate or with a combination of sodium trimetaphosphate and sodium tripolyphosphate. The reaction has increased efficiency over the standard crosslinking process and/or reduced phosphorus effluent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventor: Ralph M. Trksak
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Publication number: 20070219160Abstract: The present invention relates to a starch composition with high total dietary fiber (TDF) that retains its TDF upon processing. In particular, over 50% of such fiber is retained upon extrusion processing. Such starch is useful in the manufacture of high fiber food products, including extruded products such as breakfast cereals and snacks.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Monika Okoniewska, Ian L. Brown, Wolfgang Bindzus, Ralph M. Trksak
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Patent number: 6790270Abstract: A paper sizing and coating composition suitable for use in food packaging that is effective over a range of atmospheric conditions. The composition includes a starch and a water-soluble protein having a bloom strength of at least about 150. The composition can be applied over a paper substrate to improved oil and grease resistance.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Robert L. Billmers, Viotor L. Mackewicz, Ralph M. Trksak
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Publication number: 20030148011Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of starch as a stabilizer in acidified milk beverages, the stabilizer syrups and beverages comprising the starch and the process for preparing them.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Ralph M. Trksak, Jeffrey W. Foss, Hozumi Tsubomoto, Hiroaki Fudaba
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Patent number: 6521088Abstract: This invention is directed to degraded, hydrated particulate starches that are hydrophobically modified and a method of providing paper with reduced porosity, resistance to liquid penetration and increased surface strength comprising applying to the surface of a paper substrate an effective amount of a surface sizing composition which comprises such starch. In particular, the starches are those in which the starch base is degraded to a water fluidity (WF) of from about 10 to 80 or the modified and/or particulate starch is degraded using a substantially equivalent amount of degradation agent and substantially the same reaction conditions, the starch is modified with a hydrophobic hydrocarbon group of 5 to 23 carbon atoms at about 1 to 20% substitution level by weight of bound hydrophobe based on the weight of starch, and the hydrated starch has a volume average hydrated particle size of at least about 20 microns and a volume fraction of hydrated particles at 1% solids of at least about 5%.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2000Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Paul H. Richardson, Ralph M. Trksak, John J. Tsai, Eric M. Weisser
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Patent number: 5523339Abstract: A method of making paper in an alkaline or acid system wherein a selected crosslinked, cationized or amphoteric starch is added to the system, said starch being crosslinked by adding enough crosslinking agent to provide a starch having a breakdown viscosity of from about 2 to 85% and wherein the crosslinked, cationized or amphoteric starch is jet cooked under super atmospheric pressure at a temperature of from about 195.degree. to 325.degree. F.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1994Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Daniel B. Solarek, Leroy R. Peek, Matthew J. Henley, Ralph M. Trksak, Michael T. Philbin
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Patent number: 5368690Abstract: A method of making paper in an alkaline or acid system wherein a selected crosslinked, cationized or amphoteric starch is added to the system, said starch being crosslinked by adding enough crosslinking agent to provide a starch having a breakdown viscosity of from about 2 to 85% and wherein the crosslinked, cationized or amphoteric starch is jet cooked under super atmospheric pressure at a temperature of from about 195.degree. to 325.degree. F.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1992Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Daniel B. Solarek, Leroy R. Peek, Matthew J. Henley, Ralph M. Trksak, Michael T. Philbin
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Patent number: 5187196Abstract: Geese and swans are repelled by applying methyl anthranalate or dimethyl anthranalate to their habitats or to pelleted agricultural chemicals lethal to geese or swans. With regard to applying the repellent to habitats, preferably the repellent is encapsulated in a starch-based material that is water tolerant and provides time release of the repellent.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1989Date of Patent: February 16, 1993Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: John L. Cummings, James R. Mason, Ralph M. Trksak
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Patent number: 4992536Abstract: Polycationic polysaccharide derivatives containing more than one cationic substituent per substituted hydroxyl group are prepared by a site selective reaction of a cationic polysaccharide derivative with a suitable cationic reagent at a pH from 7.0 to 9.0. Suitable reagents include cationic alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cycloaliphatic, or heterocyclic amines, and polymer thereof, which selectively react with a cationic substituent rather than a hydroxyl group of the cationic polysaccharide derivative. The polycationic polysaccharide derivatives prepared from these reagents are useful in the manufacture of paper.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1989Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Robert L. Billmers, Daniel B. Solarek, Ralph M. Trksak
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Patent number: 4853168Abstract: Raw starch is slurried in an aqueous solution containing up to and above saturation levels of an ammonium sulfate, ammonium monobasic or dibasic phosphate, sodium sulfate or mixtures thereof. The slurry is then cooked at temperatures above about 150.degree. C. The resulting starch cook is then extruded using conventional methods into a coagulating salt bath thereby producing a starch fiber. When the starch is cooked in the presence of a salt prior to spinning in the coagulation bath, dilution of the salt in the coagulation bath is minimized, thus reducing the evaporation load.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1987Date of Patent: August 1, 1989Assignee: National Starch and Chemical CorporationInventors: James Eden, Ralph M. Trksak