Patents by Inventor Ronald D'Amelia

Ronald D'Amelia 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).

  • Breath freshening comestible product and method of controlling breath malodor
    Patent number: 6511679
    Abstract: A comestible product which includes inulin, a second component and a divalent zinc or copper. When the comestible product is a tablet, a pressed tablet, a lozenge, a hard candy or a chewy candy, the second component is a formentable carbohydrate which may, optionally, include a polyol. When the comestible product is a chewing gum the second component is a polyol, a formentable carbohydrate or mixtures thereof. The comestible product is useful in controlling breath malodor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald D'Amelia, Joseph Bell, Walter Hopkins, Saul Scheinbach, Jack Homcy, Martin Cole, Robert J. Huzinec, Judith K. Cooley, Thomas J. Carroll
  • Breath freshening comestible product and method of controlling breath malodor
    Publication number: 20020076433
    Abstract: A comestible product which includes inulin, a second component and a divalent zinc or copper. When the comestible product is a tablet, a pressed tablet, a lozenge, a hard candy or a chewy candy, the second component is a formentable carbohydrate which may, optionally, include a polyol. When the comestible product is a chewing gum the second component is a polyol, a formentable carbohydrate or mixtures thereof. The comestible product is useful in controlling breath malodor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation,
    Inventors: Ronald D'Amelia, Joseph Bell, Walter Hopkins, Saul Scheinbach, Jack Homcy, Martin Cole, Robert J. Huzinec, Judith K. Cooley, Thomas J. Carroll
  • Breath freshening comestible product
    Patent number: 6280769
    Abstract: A comestible product which includes inulin, a polyol and a divalent zinc or copper compound which effectively controls breath malodor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Nabisco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D'Amelia, Joseph Bell, Walter Hopkins, Saul Scheinbach, Jack Homcy, Martin Cole
  • Physically coated cellulose as low calorie flour replacements
    Patent number: 5976598
    Abstract: Particulate cellulosic material such as microcrystalline cellulose, .alpha.-cellulose, and/or cellulose acylated with C.sub.2 to C.sub.24 aliphatic acids to a degree of substitution of about 0.05 or less, and mixtures thereof, are physically coated with an edible hydrophobic polymer to provide low calorie flour/starch replacements for edible compositions. Typical coating polymers include cellulose esters of one or more C.sub.2 to C.sub.24 aliphatic acids; cellulose ethers such as methyl cellulose, ethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, natural waxes such as carnauba wax, candelilla wax, rice bran wax, bees wax, and mixtures of these; petroleum waxes such as polyethylene and paraffin waxes; proteins, preferably hydrophobic, such as zein, glutenin and the like, and mixtures thereof. In preferred embodiments, the low calorie flour replacements are made in a hot melt process with intense mixing in the absence of emulsifiers and gums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Nabisco, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Akkaway, Denise Deming, Lawrence Klemann, Juan A. Menijvar, Louise Slade, Ronald D'Amelia, Jeffery T. Galbraith, Haresh P. Madera, Robert M. Sauer, Jr., Ronald G. Yarger, Xiaoming You