Patents by Inventor Steven Peter Zubanas

Steven Peter Zubanas 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).

  • Methods for producing elbow-shaped crackers
    Patent number: 8048465
    Abstract: A method of forming elbow-shaped crackers using a die cutter is provided. By one approach, the method includes first preparing a cracker dough, and then sheeting the cracker dough to form a dough sheet having a thickness. Next, the formed dough sheet is advanced through a die cutter to form a plurality of elbow-shaped dough pieces from the dough sheet. The formed dough pieces have a non-symmetrical degree of curvature between top and bottom sides thereof so that the formed dough pieces have a recognizable elbow-shaped configuration and the plurality of formed dough pieces are nested together by the die cutter so that there is no sheeted cracker dough remaining between adjacently nested dough pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventors: Kenchu A. Tham, Edward Kevin McHugh, Steven Peter Zubanas
  • Methods For Producing Elbow-Shaped Crackers
    Publication number: 20100196571
    Abstract: A method of forming elbow-shaped crackers using a die cutter is provided. By one approach, the method includes first preparing a cracker dough, and then sheeting the cracker dough to form a dough sheet having a thickness. Next, the formed dough sheet is advanced through a die cutter to form a plurality of elbow-shaped dough pieces from the dough sheet. The formed dough pieces have a non-symmetrical degree of curvature between top and bottom sides thereof so that the formed dough pieces have a recognizable elbow-shaped configuration and the plurality of formed dough pieces are nested together by the die cutter so that there is no sheeted cracker dough remaining between adjacently nested dough pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Kenchu A. Tham, Edward Kevin McHugh, Steven Peter Zubanas
  • Canine snack strip
    Patent number: D486292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Haitao Ni, Anne-Marie Behrendt, Theodore Nicholas Janulis, Steven Peter Zubanas
  • Curved cracker
    Patent number: D609878
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenchu A. Tham, Edward Kevin McHugh, Steven Peter Zubanas, Zena A. Forte, Randy Blandine