Patents by Inventor Virginie Moine

Virginie Moine 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).

  • Drink-treatment method which is used to increase the sweetness thereof and compound to be added to a drink in order to increase the sweetness of same
    Patent number: 8110238
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern a processing method for a beverage destined for human or animal consumption with the aim of increasing the sweetness of said beverage, characterized in that a yeast preparation inerted by enzymatic and/or physical-chemical treatment containing a peptide sweetener with a molecular weight equal to 2.750+/?0.1 kDa is added to the beverage. The disclosed embodiments also concern such a sweetener compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sarco
    Inventor: Virginie Moine
  • DRINK-TREATMENT METHOD WHICH IS USED TO INCREASE THE SWEETNESS THEREOF AND COMPOUND TO BE ADDED TO A DRINK IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE SWEETNESS OF SAME
    Publication number: 20090252847
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern a processing method for a beverage destined for human or animal consumption with the aim of increasing the sweetness of said beverage, characterised in that a yeast preparation inerted by enzymatic and/or physical-chemical treatment containing a peptide sweetener with a molecular weight equal to 2.750+/?0.1 kDa is added to the beverage. The disclosed embodiments also concern such a sweetener compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: SARCO ZA
    Inventor: Virginie Moine
  • Method for protein stabilization of wines
    Patent number: 6238880
    Abstract: A process for the production of a biological product having a stabilization effect on the protein precipitations of white wines, characterized in that it consists in carrying out an enzymatic digestion of invertase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by hydrolysis to obtain the biological product of stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Societe d'Applications de Recherches et de Conseils Oenologiques
    Inventors: Virginie Moine, Denis Dubourdieu
  • Biological substance for the physico-chemical stabilization of wines
    Patent number: 6139891
    Abstract: A treatment for stabilizing wine against tartaric acids and proteins by adding mannoproteins extracted from yeast walls by enzymatic digestion, is disclosed. A method for carrying out the treatment by extracting mannoproteins from yeast by enzymatic digestion, and the resulting mannoprotein, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Faculte d'Oenologie
    Inventors: Denis Dubourdieu, Virginie Moine