Patents by Inventor Thomas Keme

Thomas Keme 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).

  • Isomaltulose-containing instant beverage powder
    Patent number: 7553509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to instant beverage powders, in particular aromatized or nonaromatized instant black tea powders, instant green tea powders, or instant Oolong tea powders, aromatized or nonaromatized instant herbal tea powders and instant fruit tea powders said powders containing ? 90% isomaltulose as a carrier and urea in reinforcing the sweetening power of isomaltulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tillmann Dörr, Lutz Guderjahn, Thomas Keme, Anke Sentko, Jörg Kowalczyk
  • Isomaltulose-containing instant beverage powder
    Publication number: 20050202145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to instant beverage powders, in particular aromatized or nonaromatized instant black tea powders, instant green tea powders, or instant Oolong tea powders, aromatized or nonaromatized instant herbal tea powders and instant fruit tea powders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2003
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Tillmann Dorr, Lutz Guderjahn, Thomas Keme, Anke Sentko, Jorg Kowalczyk
  • Sugar-free dragee chewing sweets
    Patent number: 6372271
    Abstract: The inventions relates to a dragee chewing sweet with a soft caramel core and a dragee coating, whereby the chewing sweet contains a sweetener mixture that is sugar-free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Bodo Fritzsching, Thomas Keme, Anette Radowski, Ingrid Willibald-Ettle
  • Hydrated lipophilic composition and process for producing it
    Patent number: 6010735
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a lipophilic composition which is made of: a) as the principal lipophilic ingredient, a chocolate mass or a chocolate substitute mass which does not contain water continuous phase, and b) an aqueous ingredient containing between 25 and 90% water, wherein the water is immobilized in a gel obtained from an element selected from the group consisting of an edible carbohydrate with gelling properties, a pectin with gelling properties or a mixture thereof, and wherein the aqueous ingredient is substantially uniformly and homogeneously dispersed in the principal lipophilic ingredient and wherein the lipophilic composition has a softening temperature higher than 28.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Raffinerie Tirlemontoise
    Inventors: Anne Frippiat, Johan De Soete, Georges Smits, Thomas Keme
  • Process for the manufacture of sucrose-free, dietetic and/or teeth-sparing chocolate
    Patent number: 4980189
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the manufacture of sugar-free dietetic and/or teeth-sparing chocolates with the preceding separate production of a sugar-free crumb and its further processing with its use of the chocolate constituents otherwise usual and subsequent tumbling into chocolate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Suddeutsche Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Keme, Hartmut Bollinger