Patents by Inventor Wayne S. Muller

Wayne S. Muller 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).

  • Method for making a food preservative and for preserving food
    Patent number: 6753024
    Abstract: A method for making a food preservative comprises the steps of removing outer skins of taro corms, cutting the corms into pieces, grinding the pieces of corm to produce ground taro, drying the ground taro, diluting the ground taro with water, cooking the taro and water, inoculating the cooked taro and water with a selected bacteriocin producing bacterium and permitting the taro to ferment, to provide the food preservative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Wayne S. Muller, Alfred L. Allen, Anthony Sikes, Andre Senecal
  • Method for making a food preservative and for preserving food
    Publication number: 20030180423
    Abstract: A method for making a food preservative comprises the steps of removing outer skins of taro corms, cutting the corms into pieces, grinding the pieces of corm to produce ground taro, drying the ground taro, diluting the ground taro with water, cooking the taro and water, inoculating the cooked taro and water with a selected bacteriocin producing bacterium and permitting the taro to ferment, to provide the food preservative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Wayne S. Muller, Alfred L. Allen, Anthony Sikes, Andre Senecal