Patents by Inventor Ulrike Schmid

Ulrike Schmid 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).

  • Use of conjugated acid derivatives
    Publication number: 20030215465
    Abstract: The invention concerns the use of conjugated linoleic acid (=CLA) or derivatives thereof, such as partial glycerides or triglycerides, alkyl esters or salts for the production of a food, a food supplement or a pharmaceutical preparation with the property to prevent or to cure influenza, to boost the effects of an influenza vaccination and/or to alleviate the effects of an influenza vaccination in humans and/or animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: LC USA LLC
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Ulrike Schmid, Marianne O'Shea, Ingrid Celestina Maria Mohede
  • Blends comprising a substituted fatty acid or a derivative thereof
    Publication number: 20030129294
    Abstract: The inventon concerns blends of a hydroquinone substituted poly unsaturated fatty acid (as present in Kombo nut oil) or a derivative thereof, which blends comprised:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Scott Sinclair Barclay, John Anthony Bosley, Frederick William Cain, Claudia Koenen, Julia Sarah Rogers, Ulrike Schmid
  • Mixtures for stimulating glucose up-take
    Publication number: 20030072785
    Abstract: Our invention concerns a mixture of CLA glycerides, and/or CLA-fatty acids and or CLA-alkyl esters and another component, wherein the other component (=component A) is selected for its capacity to alleviate problems related to insulin resistance in mammals, using CLA rich diets and/or foods and/or food supplements using an appropriate in vitro test so that in at least one step of the in vitro test, as described in the text, an improvement in test results is obtained of at least 4% by the blend of the CLA derivative and component A when compared to the CLA derivative only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: UNILEVER PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Anna Louise Brown, Frederick William Cain, Ingrid Celestina Mohede, Preyesh Parmar, Julia Sarah Rogers, Ulrike Schmid
  • Concentrate of triterpenes
    Publication number: 20030049365
    Abstract: The invention concerns concentrates of ursolic acid or its salts and oleanoic acid, wherein
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Jan Fritsche, Otto Eduard Rosier, Ulrike Schmid, Erik Schweitzer
  • Photobioreactor with improved supply of light by surface enlargement, wavelength shifter bars or light transport
    Patent number: 6509188
    Abstract: A photobioreactor is described that has a reactor chamber that is made of light-transparent material and that has an increased surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur
    Inventors: Walter Trösch, Ulrike Schmid-Staiger, Armin Zastrow, Alexander Retze, Franz Brucker
  • Fat blends with crystal modifiers
    Patent number: 6500479
    Abstract: Blends containing a vegetable fat or a blend of vegetable fats and at least 0.1 wt % of a composition comprising ursolic acid and oleanolic acid in a weight ratio of 1:00 to 99:1 display a number of benefits such as high crystallization rates. This modification of the crystallization rate can be used to achieve a number of beneficial effects in the final fat blend or in the final food product containing the blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BV
    Inventors: Krish Bhaggan, Frederick William Cain, John Hugh Pierce, Julia Sarah Rogers, Ulrike Schmid
  • Blends of ursolic acid/oleanolic acid
    Publication number: 20020037882
    Abstract: Blends comprising a glyceride and ursolic acid and oleanolic acid in weight ratios of 1:99 to 99:1 that contain less than 20 wt % of natural apolar components and/or low molecular weight components, normally present in natural extract for ursolic acid and oleanolic acid do not display the negative off taste of the natural extracts anymore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Christiaan Beindorff, Frederick William Cain, John Hugh Pierce, Ulrike Schmid, Erik Schweitzer, Jeroen Nicolaas M. Van Straalen
  • Fat blends with crystal modifiers
    Publication number: 20010038878
    Abstract: Blends containing a vegetable fat or a blend of vegetable fats and a t least 0.1 wt % of a composition comprising ursolic acid and oleanolic acid in a weight ratio of 1:99 to 99:1 display a number of benefits such as high crystallisation rates. This modification of the crystallisation rate can be used to achieve a number of beneficial effects in the final fat blend or in the final food product containing the blend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Krish Bhaggan, Frederick William Cain, John Hugh Pierce, Julia Sarah Rogers, Ulrike Schmid