Patents by Inventor Ulrich Zurcher

Ulrich Zurcher 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).

  • Publication number: 20220354151
    Abstract: A process prepares heat treated cereal based food products enriched in certain flavours, and a heat treated cereal based food product is obtainable by this process. Additionally, a process generates a pre-reacted fraction, and a pre-reacted fraction is obtainable by this process. The pre-reacted fraction can be used to prepare heat treated cereal based food products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tomas Davidek, Frédéric Mantilleri, Ondrej Novotny, Luca Ruffino, Dietmar August Gustav Sievert, Ulrich ZÜRCHER
  • Patent number: 11388919
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process to prepare heat treated cereal based food products enriched in certain flavours and to the heat treated cereal based food products obtainable by this process. Additionally, the present invention relates to a process to generate a pre-reacted fraction and to the pre-reacted fraction itself. Such pre-reacted fraction can be used in the process of the invention to prepare heat treated cereal based food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Tomas Davidek, Frédéric Mantilleri, Ondrej Novotny, Luca Salvatore Ruffino, Dietmar August Gustav Sievert, Ulrich Zürcher
  • Publication number: 20210137145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process to prepare heat treated cereal based food products enriched in certain flavours and to the heat treated cereal based food products obtainable by this process. Additionally, the present invention relates to a process to generate a pre-reacted fraction and to the pre-reacted fraction itself. Such pre-reacted fraction can be used in the process of the invention to prepare heat treated cereal based food products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Tomas Davidek, Frédéric MANTILLERI, Ondrej NOVOTNY, Luca Salvatore RUFFINO, Dietmar August Gustav SIEVERT, Ulrich ZÜRCHER
  • Patent number: 5789003
    Abstract: Method of preparing an flavoring base, in which a mixture is prepared combining at least water and a starchy starting material, the mixture is liquefied with at least one carbohydrase and it is treated enzymatically with a lipase or a lipoxygenase, and use of the the dried or liquid flavoring base for the manufacture of a food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Desjardins, Philippe Duby, Pierre Dupart, Robert Dustan Wood, Ulrich Zurcher
  • Patent number: 5616356
    Abstract: Food product fibers containing moisture, particularly fiber residues obtained from extraction procedures or from a hydrolysis procedure, are milled, dehydrated and deodorized by projecting fiber residues towards a wall surface for attrition milling and simultaneously, propelling air heated to a temperature of from 200.degree. C. to 400.degree. C. towards the projected fiber residues so that the projected fiber residues are projected against the wall surface for obtaining attrited fiber and the heated air is propelled towards the projected fiber residues and attrited fiber for dehydrating and deodorizing the projected fiber residues and for entraining dehydrated, deodorized attrited fiber for collection. In a case of treating fiber residues resultant from hydrolysis of a plant substance, the dehydrated, deodorized attrited fiber is mixed with ingredients to obtain a mixture for preparing a breadcrumb product, and then, the mixture is extrusion-cooked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Marcel Buhler, Thang Ho Dac, Ulrich Zurcher