Patents by Inventor Ron Luedeman

Ron Luedeman 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).

  • Dehydrated mash potato product and process
    Patent number: 7074450
    Abstract: A method for making a dehydrated mashed potato product by cooking fresh potatoes including defects, ricing the cooked potatoes by urging the same through multiple openings in a ricing barrier to form riced moist potato pieces exiting the ricing barrier separated from potato defects which do not pass through the ricing barrier, reforming (e.g., by extrusion) the riced moist potato pieces by applying pressure to form riced, reformed moist potato pieces, and drying the riced, reformed potato pieces to a moisture content of about 5–10%. A dried mashed potato product comprising dried potato pieces which reconstitute in water at 180° F. under light stirring conditions to a mashed potato product having soft lumps characteristic of fresh mashed potatoes at a concentration of about 10 g to 80 g of soft lumps per 400 g of rehydrated product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Basic American, Inc.
    Inventors: Tami Hill, Phil Bates, Seiji Shiratori, Kern Cooper, Warren Simon, Will McArthur, Lloyd Rockwood, Doug Davlin, Gary Dunn, Marlin Herrick, J. Layne Anderson, Ron Luedeman