Patents by Inventor William Cain

William Cain 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: 20030013164
    Abstract: Organic materials, comprising a mixture of at least two products (I) and (II), both containing isomers of conjugated long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids moieties (L I) and (I 2) can be obtained by subjecting an organic material, selected from free fatty acids, mono di or triglycerides, phospholipids, alkylesters or waxesters, containing at least 5 wt. % of these conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids, to an enzymic conversion (acidolysis, alcoholysis, esterification, hydrolysis) using an enzyme that can be discriminated between (L 1) and (L 2), so that original ratio L 1/L 2≠X A in starting material is increased to X B, whrein X B≧1.1 X A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Stephen Raymond Moore, Gerald Patrick Mcneill, Olga Cornelia Zwemmer
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20020192353
    Abstract: Structured particulate systems of active solid organic components in a matrix in a weight ratio of 99:1 to 1:99 and a mean weight diameter of 25 to 500 microns wherein the active organic component is selected from the group consisting of oleanoic acid, ursolic acid, folic acid, policosanol, phytosterols, or derivatives or salts thereof are novel and can be used to improve the oral properties and/or the homogeneity of the organic, solid, active component in a food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Thomas M. Tongue
  • Publication number: 20020176923
    Abstract: The invention concerns with an edible anhydrous fat-based fat system which comprises
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Thomas M. Tongue
  • Publication number: 20020172746
    Abstract: Our novel invention concerns with a method for improving the oral properties and/or the homogeneity of a solid, active component in a food product by incorporating in the food product an effective amount, preferably 1 to 70 wt % on food product of a structured particulate system comprising one or more active component(s) in a matrix in a weight ratio of 1:99 to 99:1 and wherein the mean weight diameter of the particles of the structured particulate system ranges from 25 to 500 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Thomas M. Tongue
  • Patent number: 6479070
    Abstract: Pinolenic acid can be used in the form of a food supplement, a pharmacentical composition or as part of a food composition as anti-inflammatory agent. The pinolenic acid used herefore suitably is applied as a natural product, or as a concentrate with more than 28 wt % pinolenic acid. The concentrates can be made by a process, wherein an enzymic hydrolysis on a glyceride material is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Preyesh Parmar, Jonathan Richard Powell, Julia Sarah Rogers
  • Patent number: 6461654
    Abstract: Blends of a natural wax, such as sunflower wax and glyceride materials, substantially being triglycerides and having an N20>20 display excellent properties when applied in barrier layers for compound food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BV
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Willem Dekker, Geoffrey Talbot, Kevin Warren Smith
  • Patent number: 6461662
    Abstract: Blends of glycerides and/or fatty acids comprising 20 to 65 wt % C16:1 fatty acid, balance other fatty acids with 12 to 24 C-atoms and having a C16:1 to C16:0 fatty acid ratio of more than 2.0 and an C16:1 to C18:1 fatty acid ratio of more than 1.2 perform well in food applications. These blends of glycerides can be made by a process involving a partial enzymic hydrolysis of materials derived from fish oil using an enzyme with specificity for C16:1, removal of the fatty acids and a fractionation of the acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BV
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Sietze Bouwer, Michel Henricus Wilhelmus van den Hoek, Andreas Menzel
  • Publication number: 20020081366
    Abstract: Triglycerides, that have at least two long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids L1 and L2, from which at least one is present for more than 20 wt %, while the weight ratio L1:L2 is at least 2 and which triglycerides also contain at least 2 wt % of saturated fatty acids with 2-12 and/or 20-24 C-atoms, but not more than 10 wt % of saturated fatty acids with 16-18 C-atoms, while at least 5 wt % of the saturated C2-C12 or C20- C24 fatty acid residues is bonded on a triglyceride molecule, wherein at least L1 and/or L2 is present, display a number of advantageous properties (e.g. higher oxidative stability, healthier, lower caloric, structuring properties, digestibility).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 6410078
    Abstract: Triglycerides, that have at least two long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids L1 and L2, from which at least one is present for more than 20 wt %, while the weight ratio L1:L2 is at least 2 and which triglycerides also contain at least 2 wt % of saturated fatty acids with 2-12 and/or 20-24 C-atoms, but not more than 10 wt % of saturated fatty acids with 16-18 C-atoms, while at least 5 wt % of the saturated C2-C12 or C20-C24 fatty acid residues is bonded on a triglyceride molecule, wherein at least L1 and/or L2 is present, display a number of advantageous properties (e.g. higher oxidative stability, healthier, lower caloric, structuring properties, digestibility).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 6406737
    Abstract: Edible fat based flakes containing a flavoring system and displaying an excellent oral and textural properties are disclosed that contain i) 0 to 2% moisture ii) 25 to 90 wt % of a fat containing: a vegetable fat with an N20 of more than 50 and 5 to 40 wt % of a fish oil composition, containing w-3 fatty acids so that the w-3 content of the total flavored fat system ranges from 0.1 to 20 wt % iii) 0 to 15% of a flavoring system iv) 0 to 40% of sugar v) 0 to 60 wt % of a filler vi) 0 to 50% of a health component and which flakes have a size of 0.05 mm to 2.5 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Andreas Menzel
  • Patent number: 6399138
    Abstract: The invention concerns concentrates of shea sterols in glycerides with more than 12.5 wt % shea sterols, the preparation thereof by enzymic hydrolysis of glycerides in shea oils or fractions thereof and the application of the concentrates in aerated food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, John Bernard Harris, Stephen Raymond Moore, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Maarten Johan Klaassen
  • Patent number: 6367513
    Abstract: A scrim of woven polyolefin tapes comprising a plurality of warp tapes in a substantially parallel side-by-side relationship and a plurality of weft tapes in a substantially parallel side-by-side relationship. At least some of each of said warp and said weft tapes being in the form of a tape having at least one of an additional tape and a multifilament yarn superimposed thereon. Each of said tapes is a polyolefin tape. The scrim exhibits improved tear strength properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Intertape Polymer Group
    Inventor: Raymond William Cain
  • Patent number: 6365175
    Abstract: Edible compositions containing petroselinic acid are used for the preparation of food compositions or food supplements that are used as anti-inflammatory compositions that inhibit the production of metabolites of arachidonic acid and/or reduces the formation of intracellular adhesion molecules or as anti-aging compositions with a positive impact on wrinkling, sagging, photodamaged skin, dry skin, flaky skin and age spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Simon Alaluf, Martin Richard Green, Jonathan Richard Powell, Julia Sarah Rogers, Allan Watkinson, Frederick William Cain, Heng Long Hu, Anthony Vincent Rawlings
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6340491
    Abstract: Free flowing fat compositions with high levels of triglycerides, containing long chain poly unsaturated fatty acids comprise: (1) a blend of fats (A) and (B) in a weight ration 90:10 to 10:90; (2) 0-95 wt. % of a filler material, wherein fat A is a fat with ≧0.5 wt. % of LC PUFA'S and fat B is a hard fat, while the composition fulfills the requirement that: [N30(unstab) of fat (A) or the blend +% of filler in composition]≧70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Willem Dekker, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6312751
    Abstract: Edible fat based flakes containing a flavouring system and displaying an excellent oral and textural properties comprise: i) 0 to 2% moisture ii) 25 to 90 wt % of a fat with a Stevens hardness at 25° C. of more than 65 g iii) 0 to 15% of a flavouring system iv) 0 to 40% of sugar v) 0 to 60 wt % of a filler vi) 0 to 60% of a health component while the total of components iii) to vi) is more than 8 wt % and which flakes have a size of 0.05 mm to 2.5 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Bettina Schmidl, Gerald Patrick McNeill, Tony Herzing
  • Patent number: 6277430
    Abstract: Novel fat-continous emulsion, containing a blend with emulsifying properties is obtained by the blending of: 0-90% of a partial glyceride (=A); 0-80% of a phospholipid (=B); 0.01-99.98% of a long chain alcohol having >20 C-atoms in the alcohol chain, while the amount of (A)+(B)≧0.02% and incorporating this blend in a fat-continuous emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Anne Hailes, Leo Frans Vermaas, Olga Cornelia Zwemmer
  • Patent number: D469249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: Rotha Williams Cain