Patents by Inventor Thom O. Martin

Thom O. Martin 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).

  • Rice cereal and process
    Patent number: 4238514
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improvement in a process for preparing a puffed ready-to-eat cereal product from rice. Nato rice typically sticks and clumps during processing. The present invention reduces this problem. In a preferred embodiment, milled rice is admixed with spray dried torula yeast which has been cultured in ethanol, prior to cooking the rice in a sugar solution, and drying, tempering, bumping, puffing and toasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Thom O. Martin, Adolph S. Clausi
  • Cereal process and product
    Patent number: 4075356
    Abstract: Two planes of dissimilar droplets, an oil phase and a syrup phase, are sequentially centrifugally distributed onto a cascading assortment of dissimilarly sized and shaped pulverulent food particles of varying densities, an aggregate thereof being formed by the action of high speed paddle means; the aggregates being transformed into agglomerates by tumbling in an undulating rotating zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Haag, Patrick M. Rousseau, Thom O. Martin
  • Process for preparing a dried agglomerated cereal mixture
    Patent number: 4038427
    Abstract: A natural, ready-to-eat breakfast cereal or snack product is produced by aggregating an assortment of amylaceous and proteinaceous particles around puffed and preferably at least partially cupped toasted cereal flakes which serve as focal points for the particles and thereby afford a multi-textured lower density and eating quality, the aggregates being preserved and agglomerated in a fat-syrup double or single coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Thom O. Martin