Patents by Inventor Tyre Lanier

Tyre Lanier 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).

  • Patent number: 11666068
    Abstract: Described herein is a concentrated sweet potato leaf protein in dried form, along with methods for producing it. The concentrated leaf protein has a protein content of greater than 21% by weight, and can have other beneficial components such as polyphenols. The concentrated leaf proteins are suitable for use in food and beverages, as protein supplementation, or as agents for gelling, foaming, and whipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LEAFPRO, LLC
    Inventors: Jason M. Ornstein, Emily Lanier, Tyre Lanier
  • Publication number: 20220232853
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shellfish analogue product which simulates the natural texture of real shellfish meat
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Michelle WOLF, Joseph ACKILLI, Tyre LANIER
  • Publication number: 20210378259
    Abstract: This paper describes a concentrated sweet potato leaf protein in dried form, along with methods for producing it. The concentrated leaf protein is high in protein content, high in purity, and can have other beneficial components such as polyphenols. The concentrated leaf proteins are suitable for use in food and beverages, as protein supplementation, or as agents for gelling, foaming, whipping and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: LEAFPRO, LLC
    Inventors: Jason M. ORNSTEIN, Emily LANIER, Tyre LANIER
  • Patent number: 7270842
    Abstract: The invention uses rapid heating to effect a material property change in a biomaterial. The biomaterial is heated to a predetermined real temperature, whereas the biomaterial's total thermal treatment is described by an equivalent temperature and an equivalent time defining a point above a minimum gel set temperature line, above a reduction in bacteria line, below a water loss line, and below a maximum gel set temperature line. According to one aspect of the invention, the biomaterial is heated by exposing the biomaterial to a relatively uniform electric field. The material is heated to a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time in order to achieve a food product characterized by a preselected refrigerated shelf life of from about two weeks to about forty-two weeks. The food product may be packaged prior to the microwave exposure so as to sterilize the packaging and decrease product loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignees: North Carolina State University, Industrial Microwave Systems, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Tyre Lanier, Josip Simunovic, Kenneth R. Swartzel, J. Michael Drozd, Alexander Riemann
  • Publication number: 20070012692
    Abstract: The invention uses rapid heating to effect a material property change in a biomaterial. The biomaterial is heated to a predetermined real temperature, whereas the biomaterial's total thermal treatment is described by an equivalent temperature and an equivalent time defining a point above a minimum gel set temperature line, above a reduction in bacteria line, below a water loss line, and below a maximum gel set temperature line. According to one aspect of the invention, the biomaterial is heated by exposing the biomaterial to a relatively uniform electric field. The material is heated to a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time in order to achieve a food product characterized by a preselected refrigerated shelf life of from about two weeks to about forty-two weeks. The food product may be packaged prior to the microwave exposure so as to sterilize the packaging and decrease product loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Tyre Lanier, Josip Simunovic, Kenneth Swartzel, J. Drozd, Alexander Riemann
  • Publication number: 20060176994
    Abstract: A digital video interface receiver adjusts a transfer function of a phase-locked loop circuit having a programmable charge pump, a programmable phase-locked loop filter, or a programmable gain voltage controlled oscillator. The digital video interface receiver monitors and detects errors in a data stream associated with the phase-locked loop circuit. Moreover, the digital video interface receiver changes the transfer function of the phase-locked loop circuit, in response to the detected errors, by changing parameters associated with the programmable charge pump, the programmable phase-locked loop filter, or the programmable gain voltage controlled oscillator of the phase-locked loop circuit so as to change the transfer function of the phase-locked loop circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Rodney Miller, Ernest Stroud, Ted Hecht, Jinhjiang Yin, Tyre Lanier
  • Publication number: 20050243956
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus provide extraction of data from an analog signal. The method includes deriving a data-location signal having amplitude transitions that identify a phase of amplitude transitions of the analog signal, and, in response to the data-location signal, selecting a sampling clock signal having a phase different from the phase of the amplitude transitions of the analog signal. The apparatus includes a signal generator that derives from the analog signal a data-location signal, and a selector that selects a sampling clock signal having a phase different from the phase of the amplitude transitions of the analog signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Fernald, Tyre Lanier
  • Publication number: 20050237090
    Abstract: A frequency synthesizer includes a circuit which alternately outputs multiple output signals having different respective periods to drive the average period of the output signal to within a predetermined number of phase steps of a desired period. The phase steps are provided by a plurality of phase-shifted reference clock signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventor: Tyre Lanier
  • Publication number: 20050025260
    Abstract: Structures and methods are provided for capturing data from a data bit stream. They primarily generate successive bit sample sequences that each comprise N interleaved bit sample phases, identify subsampling strings formed of less than N consecutive bit samples with the same bit sample value, invalidate the bit sample phase of any bit sample that adjoins the strings, and then form data with successive bit sample phases that remain valid after the invalidating step. From more than one valid bit sample phases, they identify a preferred valid bit sample phase as one whose bit samples least often adjoin transitions from one bit sample value to a different bit sample value and then form the data with the preferred valid bit sample phase. Preferably, copies of the bit sample sequences are delayed along a delay path to facilitate the identifying and invalidating steps and subsequently, valid bit sample phases are multiplexed from the delay path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Theodore Hecht, Tyre Lanier