Patents by Inventor Warren Simon

Warren Simon 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).

  • Dehydrated mash potato product and process
    Patent number: 7074450
    Abstract: A method for making a dehydrated mashed potato product by cooking fresh potatoes including defects, ricing the cooked potatoes by urging the same through multiple openings in a ricing barrier to form riced moist potato pieces exiting the ricing barrier separated from potato defects which do not pass through the ricing barrier, reforming (e.g., by extrusion) the riced moist potato pieces by applying pressure to form riced, reformed moist potato pieces, and drying the riced, reformed potato pieces to a moisture content of about 5–10%. A dried mashed potato product comprising dried potato pieces which reconstitute in water at 180° F. under light stirring conditions to a mashed potato product having soft lumps characteristic of fresh mashed potatoes at a concentration of about 10 g to 80 g of soft lumps per 400 g of rehydrated product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Basic American, Inc.
    Inventors: Tami Hill, Phil Bates, Seiji Shiratori, Kern Cooper, Warren Simon, Will McArthur, Lloyd Rockwood, Doug Davlin, Gary Dunn, Marlin Herrick, J. Layne Anderson, Ron Luedeman
  • Method for preparing quick-reconstituting foodstuffs which includes subjecting such foodstuffs to freezing followed by thawing and then at least one sequence of freezing and thawing prior to drying
    Patent number: 6110518
    Abstract: A method for producing a quick-reconstituting foodstuff including thawing previously frozen foodstuff under conditions to result in thawed foodstuff, freezing said thawed foodstuff to result in a multiply frozen foodstuff, subsequently thawing multiply frozen foodstuff under conditions to result in a multiply frozen and thawed foodstuff; and removing moisture from multiply frozen and thawed foodstuff under conditions to produce a finish-dried foodstuff having a storage stable moisture content of less than about 12% by total weight and exhibiting a Rehydration Ratio representing the replacement of at least 95% of previously removed moisture after reconstitution for less than about 10 minutes in simmering 205.degree. F. water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Basic American, Inc.
    Inventors: Kern L. Cooper, Mark Call, Warren Simon, Susan Linscott