Patents Issued in December 25, 2018
  • Patent number: 10159228
    Abstract: A water delivery system for supplying water to an insect habitat. The water delivery system including a water tray equipped with a sensor to monitor an amount of water within a water tray. The sensor to cause water to be delivered to the water tray when the amount of water within the tray falls below a predefined threshold amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Aspire Food Group USA Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Todd Hall, Gabriel Mott, Mohammed Ashour
  • Patent number: 10159229
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for culturing Dipteran insects, particularly Hermetia illucens. The apparatus include a mating chamber that contains adult insects, and adaptations for the scheduled and/or metered introduction of inputs, such as: empty egg laying substrate, prepupae, bedding, carbohydrate (sugar) and/or water); and, the scheduled and/or metered collection of outputs, such as: egg laying substrate containing eggs, exuvia and bedding, and/or dead adults. The systems may also include adaptations to optimize the use of space, including the use of controlled environmental conditions within a confined space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Enterra Feed Corporation
    Inventors: Brad Marchant, Andrew Vickerson, Oliver Kaulfuss, Reed Radley
  • Patent number: 10159230
    Abstract: A continuous trawl fishing method includes: by dragging a fishing net in water through a vessel, carrying out trawling operation so that catches to be fished enter a cod-end of a fishing net tail; then tractioning and moving the cod-end so that a sucking fish tube of a vacuum sucking fish pump reaches into the cod-end; and a tube mouth of the sucking fish tube contacting the catches in the cod-end to run the vacuum sucking fish pump to suck the catches from the cod-end into the collection tank through the sucking fish tube, and the catches in the collection tank being then transferred and frozen or directly processed. The fished catches of the present invention are obviously improved in indicators such as the stiffness time and the number of the first-grade fresh fish and so on. The histamine content is obviously reduced and the catch quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuting Ding, Yanbo Wang, Chuang Sui, Xuxia Zhou, Shulai Liu, Hongliang Huang, Long Lin
  • Patent number: 10159231
    Abstract: A fishing lure with an adjustable geometry that can be adjusted as desired by a fisherman. The variably adjustable geometry enables the fisherman to vary and control the spin of the lure, as well as the depth of the lure during trolling. In addition, the adjustable geometry enables the fisherman to orient the lure such that it behaves in a manner similar to a wounded or injured fish, thereby attracting predator fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel J White
  • Patent number: 10159232
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus and system for detecting fishing related events and providing notifications to a fisher regarding those events. When a fishing related event, such as a fish on line event occurs, it results in a fishing rod flexing or moving in particular directions. The described implementations include sensors located on or in the fishing rod that provide position data that is utilized to monitor a movement of the fishing rod and determine a type of fishing related event that has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: William Spencer Worley, III
  • Patent number: 10159233
    Abstract: A combination paddle and fishing rod device is disclosed. The device may incorporate a single ended paddle or double ended paddle. In any embodiment, the device allows a fishing reel to be mounted to the shaft of the paddle. The shaft forms a portion of the fishing rod supporting one or more eyelets for guiding fishing line from a fishing reel mounted to the shaft. In one embodiment, the eyelets are connected to the shaft and or an oar blade. In another embodiment, a short fishing rod section having one or more eyelets is connected to the shaft. The device is configured to permit fishing while a user propels a watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Ronald C. Shiflett, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10159234
    Abstract: A fishing reel forwardly releases a fishing line and includes a reel unit, a spool, a spool brake, an electric component, and a voltage booster circuit. The spool is rotatably supported by the reel unit. The spool brake generates an electric power upon a rotation of the spool, and applies a brake force to brake the spool using the electric power when the spool is rotated. The electric component operates using the electric power generated by the spool brake. The voltage booster circuit increases a voltage supplied to the electric component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Fumihide Numata, Norikazu Taki, Yuichiro Ishikawa, Akira Niitsuma
  • Patent number: 10159235
    Abstract: A fishing reel which includes a covering or enclosure that can also be functionally used as a toy car when detached from the fishing rod. The fishing reel functions as traditional spincast fishing reel when attached to the fishing rod. The reel enclosure is formed in the shape of a toy vehicle and is detachable from the fishing rod. Once removed, the reel enclosure can be reassembled and used as a toy vehicle independent of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Todd McCain
  • Patent number: 10159236
    Abstract: A beverage container useful for fishing includes a recessed channel for receiving and dispensing fishing line. The container with a fishing line spool is configured such that a hand-line-fishing device is provided without the need for a fishing pole. Optionally, the spool is removable from the beverage container body and may be rotatably mounted with respect thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew J. Grimes, Timothy M. Kneale
  • Patent number: 10159237
    Abstract: A line dampener is configured to reduce vibration in a fishing line. The line dampener includes a housing that has a top portion that smoothly descends to a front portion, a rear portion, a port portion and a starboard portion. A bottom portion smoothly ascends to a front portion, a rear portion, a port portion and a starboard portion. A tunnel perforates the housing. A fishing line passes through the tunnel. The housing reduces the vibration in the fishing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Charles D. Osterholm
  • Patent number: 10159238
    Abstract: A portable lighting system includes a vehicle that has a hitch receiver and a lighting system. A lighting unit is removably coupled to the hitch receiver. The lighting unit has a telescopically adjustable height ranging between approximately 1.0 meters and 2.5 meters. Moreover, the lighting unit is selectively positioned in a first position having the lighting unit being vertically oriented. In this way the lighting unit may emit light at a height that is sufficient to attract bugs away from a user. The lighting unit is selectively positioned in second position having the lighting unit being horizontally oriented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Joe L. Cumpian, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10159239
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a packaged terminal device for killing pests in an affected area includes a housing configured to be positioned at least partially within an affected area, a fan positioned within the housing, and one or more heating elements positioned within the housing. The fan is operable to draw a flow of air from the affected area into the housing. The one or more heating elements are operable to generate heated air by transferring heat to the flow of air. The packaged terminal device further includes a control unit operable to control the operation of the one or more heating elements in order to cause the packaged terminal device to operate in either a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the operation of the one or more heating elements is controlled such that sufficient heated air is generated to heat at least a portion of the affected area to a temperature less than or equal to a first predefined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Therma-Stor LLC
    Inventors: Wayne J. Hosli, Sean M. Ebert
  • Patent number: 10159240
    Abstract: A benthic barrier in which a polygonal shaped mat having straight sides is mounted on a similarly polygonal frame, but in which the frame sides bow out slightly between corners, causing the mat to stretch slightly and become taut. The frame comprises a plurality of straight leg members and a number of corner members as required by said polygonal shape. The corner members encompass interior angles which are from about 1 to about 5 degrees greater than the interior angle of the polygon defined by the straight sides of the mat. The frame member legs are rigid, but slightly flexible such that when assembled into the mat as an assembled frame, the straight legs are forced to bow out slightly between the corners, pulling the mat taut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Douglas Fast
  • Patent number: 10159241
    Abstract: An animal trap having a housing including an open end, the open end having a bottom wall plate, both side wall plates and both side lateral guides; and a door slidably and movably mounted to the housing through the both side lateral guides for swinging upward and downward between an open position and a closed portion, whereby an animal that enters the housing through the door is automatically trapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventors: Heung Yong Ha, Peter J. Ha
  • Patent number: 10159242
    Abstract: A motorized tree stand includes a frame assembly for attachment to a tree. The frame assembly includes a rear wall that includes a vertical drive track and at least one vertical gliding rail spaced laterally therefrom. A seat assembly is operatively coupled to the rear wall of the frame assembly and provides a seat on which a user can sit. A first drive assembly is coupled to the seat assembly and includes a ball screw drive mechanism to controllably move the seat assembly in a vertical direction along the frame assembly. A second drive assembly can be coupled to a swivel plate for controllably moving the swivel plate resulting in swiveling of the seat assembly relative to the frame assembly. A controller and a power source are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Kadry Abouelmakarem
  • Patent number: 10159243
    Abstract: An auger support stand for holding objects such as decoys above the ground. The auger support stand includes at least one rod of longitudinal member defining a shaft. The shaft includes a helical coil at the bottom end for fixedly screwing that end of the stake into the ground. The top end of the stake has a central rod including an S-shaped handle providing a crank handle for screwing the shaft into the ground. The top distal end of the shaft includes means for supporting an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Decoy Stake Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Brooks
  • Patent number: 10159244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for the preparation of a pooled or mixed population of cryopreserved cells (e.g. hepatocytes). In particular, the invention entails the rapid thaw of cells (e.g. hepatocytes), donated from a single individual, which are mixed to create a heterogeneous population and then cryopreserved. The invention also concerns preparations of multi-cryopreserved cells to increase viability prior to immediate use. The process entails reducing exposure to chemical and physical stresses to increase the resultant number of viable cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LONZA WALKERSVILLE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Sherman, Robert Kaiser
  • Patent number: 10159245
    Abstract: A device (10) is provided for the handling and transportation of an eyeball (1) including: at least one base body (2) including a first housing seat or cavity (4) for housing at least partially the eyeball; at least one retaining element (3) including at least three fins (13) for retaining the eyeball in the first housing seat or cavity; and at least one lid (5) removably combinable with the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Roberta Foglia
  • Patent number: 10159246
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an agrochemical active substance and a copolymer which comprises an N-vinylcarboxamide and a diallyldialkylammonium salt incorporated into the polymer. The invention furthermore relates to a method of preparing this composition; to the use of this composition for dispersing agrochemical active substances; to a method of controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired insect or mite attack and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein the composition is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or the crop plants to be protected from the respective pest, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or on their environment; and furthermore to seed comprising the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerhard Schnabel, Ruth Wirschem, Paul Klingelhoefer, Lucelena Patricio Cardoso
  • Patent number: 10159247
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a herbicide, an etheramine alkoxylate surfactant, an alkylamine alkoxylate surfactant having a high degree of alkoxylation and compatibilizer comprising, in some embodiments, an alkylamine alkoxylate surfactant having a low degree of alkoxylation or an alkylpolyglucoside surfactant. The herbicidal compositions are herbicidally efficacious and cause low eye irritation and low crop injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: David Z. Becher, David Eaton, John Hemminghaus
  • Patent number: 10159248
    Abstract: The present invention provides natural and/or simulated, synthetic, synergistic pesticidal compositions comprising terpenes, such as extracts from Chenopodium ambrosioides near ambrosioides, or compositions based on those found in Chenopodium ambrosioides near ambrosioides. The present invention also provides methods of using said compositions to kill, inhibit, prevent and/or repel plant pests from contacting and/or damaging plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Desmond Jimenez, Giselle Janssen, Dennis Long, Brett Highland, Tara Lu, Gerardo Bueno, Nicholas Wright
  • Patent number: 10159249
    Abstract: The use of 2-chloro-3-(methylsulfanyl)-N-(1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide or its salts for controlling unwanted plants in areas of transgenic crop plants being tolerant to HPPD inhibitor herbicides by containing one or more chimeric gene(s) comprising (I) a DNA sequence encoding hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) derived from a member of a group of organisms consisting of (a) Avena, (b) Pseudomonas, (c) Synechococcoideae, (d) Blepharismidae, (e) Rhodococcus, (f) Picrophilaceae, (g) Kordia, or (II) one or more mutated DNA sequences of HPPD encoding genes of the before defined organisms, preferably from Pseudomonas, or (III) one or more DNA sequences encoding mutated maize (Zea mays) or soybean (Glycine max) HPPD each being mutated as described in WO 2012/021785.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fabien Poree, Christian Waldraff, Bernd Laber, Arnim Koehn, Elmar Gatzweiler, Klaus Trabold
  • Patent number: 10159250
    Abstract: A species of Burkholderia sp with no known pathogenicity to vertebrates but with pesticidal activity (e.g., plants, insects, fungi, weeds and nematodes) is provided. Also provided are natural products derived from a culture of said species and methods of controlling pests using said natural products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Ratnakar Asolkar, Marja Koivunen, Pamela Marrone, Ana-Lucia Cordova Kreylos, Huazhang Huang
  • Patent number: 10159251
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MCLAUGHLIN GORMLEY KING COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert A. Suranyi, Donald L. Sundquist
  • Patent number: 10159252
    Abstract: This invention is related to compounds and/or compositions useful against pathogens affecting meats, plants, or plant parts. In one embodiment, the provided compounds are products of certain oxaborole moieties. In a further embodiment, the compound comprises certain halogen substitutions on the boron atom. Delivery systems are also provided to take advantage of their fungicidal activity and/or volatile nature of these compounds and/or compositions. In another embodiment, the compounds disclosed have herbicidal activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AGROFRESH INC.
    Inventor: Richard M. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10159253
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a green non-toxic biocidal application technology that helps a person find, evaluate and produce the perfect pathogenic solution for safely exterminating unwanted, pathogenic and deadly organisms while contributing positively to regenerative and sustainable future ecosystems. This method enables the identification, selection and production of biocidal bioavailable pure silver particles and ions that are indefinitely clear, non-toxic, safe, ultra-small size=0.04-0.99 nanometers antimicrobial solutions for pure liquid or atomized implementation that are customized for completely annihilating specific targeted unwanted, pathogenic, deadly and/or disease-causing organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Paul Ash Minturn
  • Patent number: 10159254
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a method of improving the tolerance of a plant, which has been genetically engineered to over express a p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD), to a HPPD inhibiting herbicide, said method comprising applying to said plant a water-soluble iron-containing compound. The present invention further relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus, the locus comprising weeds and crop plants, the crop plants having been genetically engineered to overexpress a HPPD which confers tolerance to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, the method comprising application to the locus of (i) a weed controlling amount of a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and (ii) a water-soluble iron-containing compound. The present invention further relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and a water-soluble iron-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Rakesh Jain, Brett Robert Miller, Gordan Dean Vail, Bryan James Ulmer
  • Patent number: 10159255
    Abstract: A biocidal additive package comprises at least one metal or metal containing compound selected from the group consisting of Cu2O, Cu(OH)2, Cu, CuO3, Cu2O3, and a combination thereof, and at least one non-copper metal or non-copper containing metal compound. Non-limiting examples of non-copper metal and non-copper containing metal compounds are Ag, Ag2O, Bi, Bi2O3, Zn, ZnO, or a combination thereof. A biocidal ceramic glaze layer and an article comprising a biocidal ceramic glaze layer are provided. Also provided is a method of affixing a biocidal ceramic glaze to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Microban Products Company
    Inventor: Alvin Lamar Campbell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10159256
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a composition for use in treating wounds in trees, plants and vines. In addition, the disclosure provides a method of making the compositions and their use in treating fungal infections of pruning wounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Philippe Rolshausen
  • Patent number: 10159257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a variant fusaricidin synthetase lacking a functional adenylation domain in the third module. The present invention also provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain or a cell-free extract thereof comprising at least one Paeniserine and at least one Paeniprolixin. Also provided are isolated compounds and methods of treating a plant to control a plant disease with the disclosed compositions and compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Jeremy Beau, Daniel M. Joo, Patrick Schwientek, Colleen S. Taylor, Bjorn A. Traag
  • Patent number: 10159258
    Abstract: An improved assembly for automatically folding and pressing submarine sandwiches in line production. Once a preparer has assembled the sub with the customer's selection of meats and vegetables, it is placed on the assembly to quickly and efficiently prepare the sub for cutting, wrapping and delivery without uncoordinated or awkward handling by the employee and the loss of ingredients. The assembly includes a conveyor belt for movement of the sandwiches into a curvilinear channel having a converging outlet which provides the dual functions of folding and pressing the sandwich, following which it ready for packaging and/or delivery to a customer. In other embodiments, the assembly includes a plurality of hinged plates, a central press down bar, and options for a hand crank or foot pedal control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOMATED SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Wartman, Daniel Pijeira, Omar A Tavarez, Carlos Bonilla
  • Patent number: 10159259
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for arranging a bird having a body and two legs in a position for being suspended from a shackle. The method comprises the following sequence of steps: I) placing the body of the bird on a support surface with the breast side facing the support surface, II) inserting at least one spreading member between the legs of the bird, so that the breast side of at least one leg comes to rest on a contact surface of the spreading member, and III) forcing the legs away from each other using the spreading mechanism, so that the distance between the hock joints becomes bigger than the distance between the hip joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LINCO FOOD SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Bent Østergaard, Lasse Markfoged Petersen
  • Patent number: 10159260
    Abstract: An improved cleaning device comprises linked rollers that roll over a cleaning surface to remove debris from shrimp or other product. The cleaning device comprises a trough with a cleaning surface, an oscillating shaft within the trough and rollers biased into contact with the cleaning surface. At least some of the rollers are connected through a coupling device, which connects the rollers to the oscillating shaft via a roller connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Byron M. Falgout, Brent A. Ledet, Barry C. Strayer
  • Patent number: 10159261
    Abstract: Freeze-dried, aerated yogurt products that include dairy or dairy-substitute compositions and an emulsifier are disclosed, along with methods of producing and using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Nestec S. A.
    Inventors: Scott Peterson, Frank Welch, Thomas Burkholder, Norman Jager, Giovanna Alemán
  • Patent number: 10159262
    Abstract: A frosty swirl machine includes a housing, a funnel, an auger for swirling ice-cream with other additives to become a mixture, and a protective cap. The protective cap has a passage opening movably mounted at a mixture outlet of the funnel, in such a manner that the protective cap is capable of moving between a opened position and a closed position, wherein in the opened position, the protective cap is moved to align the passage opening with the mixture outlet of the funnel so as to allow the mixture to pour out of the funnel through the mixture outlet and the passage opening, wherein in the closed position, the protective cap is moved to block the mixture outlet so as to prevent the mixture from being poured out of the funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventors: Lingyu Dong, Chundong Dong
  • Patent number: 10159263
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for making frozen food products from a fruit puree, i.e. a flowable banana meat or a flowable blend of fruit meat and other edible ingredients. A composition that includes peeled bananas and at least one antioxidant may be mixed in a mixing device at ambient temperature and under less than one atmosphere of pressure, forming the puree. The temperature of the puree is reduced to a semi-frozen state by passing the puree through a heat exchanger. The semi-frozen puree is then formed into food products with a pre-determined volume, shape, and weight by a molding or extrusion process. Sticks, if desired, may be inserted, and the shaped puree is then frozen to solidified cores. The solidified cores may be coated with chocolate and treated with other edible toppings and then packaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Totally Bananas, LLC
    Inventor: Charles J. Pheterson
  • Patent number: 10159264
    Abstract: Animal feeds and feed components are provided which comprise tunicate material. The tunicate material may be whole tunicate, e.g. washed and/or dried, or a tunicate extract. Preferred tunicate extracts include protein- and/or lipid-enhanced extracts. Also provided are uses of tunicates and tunicate extracts as, or in, animal feeds and methods for feeding animals, e.g. fish, comprising administering feeds containing tunicate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BERGEN TEKNOLOGIOVERFORING AS
    Inventors: Christofer Troedsson, Eric Thompson, Jean-Marie Bouquet, Thorolf Magnesen, Christoffer Schander, Jiebing Li
  • Patent number: 10159265
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for reducing methane production in ruminants comprising administering to said ruminant a feed composition containing a flavanone glycoside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: INTERQUIM, S.A.
    Inventors: Joaquim Balcells Terés, Francisco Javier Crespo Montero
  • Patent number: 10159266
    Abstract: An edible pet chew comprises a member of Artificial Bully Stick formed from a composition material with pizzle ingredient imitating existing traditional bully stick products, serving as an alternative to traditional bully stick. The imitation may include the structure, and/or appearance, and/or size, and/or color, and/or texture, and/or flavor, and/or durability, and/or palatability of traditional bully stick. Preferably it is an extruded stick processed by an extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Sunlight Electronic Weighting Apparatus Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 10159267
    Abstract: An electromechanical nixtamalization system consisting of a rotary reactor, which turns on a horizontal axis and has a single-piece inner steel container without internal blades. It has resistors, a ceramic fiber layer, and a detachable stainless steel plate, and is fed by the maize grains introduced into an upper receiving hopper, and a cooling vat with a lid; and an interior and intermediate surface, as well as a cooling chamber located between the interior and intermediate walls, coated in a high-pressure polyurethane lining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventor: Eloy Vaz Camara
  • Patent number: 10159268
    Abstract: Naturally-derived compounds having various structures elicit the perception of salty taste, enhance the perception of salty taste of a salt, or act at one or more sodium channels. Food products may include such naturally-derived compounds, which may be used to reduce the sodium content, while imparting a similar level of saltiness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL MILLS, INC.
    Inventors: Bernhard H. Van Lengerich, Olaf Gruess, Joachim Hans, Lars Ole Haustedt, Andreas Hochheimer, Micheal Krohn, Jens-Peter Muller, Christine M. Nowakowski, Suzanne Denise Pecore, Candace Michelle Rathjen-Nowak, Lia Scarabottolo, Karsten Siems
  • Patent number: 10159269
    Abstract: A composition containing a Lactobacillus pentosus TUA4337L strain (accession number: NITE BP-1479), characterized in that the strain has proliferation ability in the small intestines and/or the large intestine, and preferably the small intestines, after having survived in the intestinal tract. Since the composition of the present invention contains lactic acid bacteria having proliferation ability in the intestinal tract, when ingested in the body, the lactic acid bacteria survive to the intestinal tract and proliferate, whereby the fat absorption can be blocked, and the weight gains can be blocked, so that the composition can be suitably used for the purposes of dieting effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventor: Eiji Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10159270
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for making and dispensing liquid or semi-liquid food products, having: at least one tank for containing the product to be processed and dispensed and having a discharge orifice for the product to be dispensed; at least one dispensing tap having: an external conduit having an inlet orifice which is connected, in use, to the discharge orifice of the containment tank, a product release orifice and a product recirculation orifice, a tubular duct having formed in it a first internal cavity which is provided with at least one radial opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ALI S.P.A.—CARPIGIANI GROUP
    Inventors: Andrea Cocchi, Roberto Lazzarini
  • Patent number: 10159271
    Abstract: A method of cooking a snack food, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a bed comprising a plurality of particles; b. heating and moving the particles in the bed to form a mobile cooking medium in the form of a heated, mobile bed of particles; c. providing a plurality of snack food precursor elements in the cooking medium thereby to cook the snack food precursor elements to form a plurality of cooked snack food pieces, wherein the heated, mobile particles transfer heat into the snack food precursor elements by thermal conduction; and d. separating the plurality of snack food pieces and the cooking medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Godfroid, Austin Jon Kozman, Simon John Lawton, Leon Levine, Roshni Modhwadia, David James Stanley-Smith
  • Patent number: 10159272
    Abstract: A method of cooking a snack food, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a bed comprising a plurality of particles, wherein the particles are composed of, comprise or consist of a material which is magnetic and/or electroconductive; b. heating the particles in the bed to form a cooking medium in the form of a heated bed of particles, wherein in step b the particles are heated at least partially by electromagnetic induction; c. providing a plurality of snack food precursor elements in the cooking medium thereby to cook the elements to form a plurality of cooked snack food pieces, wherein the heated particles transfer heat into the elements by thermal conduction; and d. separating the plurality of snack food pieces and the cooking medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Godfroid, Austin Jon Kozman, Simon John Lawton, Leon Levine, Roshni Modhwadia, David James Stanley-Smith
  • Patent number: 10159273
    Abstract: The invention provides a tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition that comprises an extract derived from a component of a plant of the Nicotiana species. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the extracts described herein, and methods for preparing extracts derived from a component of a plant of the Nicotiana species for addition to a tobacco composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Michael Francis Dube, William Monroe Coleman, III
  • Patent number: 10159274
    Abstract: An apparatus (10, 20, 30, 40) for shifting of rod-like articles (4, 4?) with different lengths or rod-like article groups (6) with different total lengths on a drum conveyor (3), comprising slidably mounted pusher elements (7, 27, 37) acting on at least one rod-like article (4, 4?) or at least one rod-like article group (6) so as to vary their position in the flute (3) of the drum conveyor (2), with the pusher elements (7, 27, 37) being 5 slidable in a direction substantially corresponding to the axis of the rod-like articles, and a pushing unit (5, 25, 35) mounted angularly relative to the pusher elements (7, 27, 37) forcing the movement of the pusher elements (7, 27, 37), whereas the pushing unit comprises rotational pushing elements for pushing against the pusher elements (7, 27, 37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o. o.
    Inventor: Artur Ostrzyzek
  • Patent number: 10159275
    Abstract: The apparatus for combining tobacco sheets comprises a first shaft for carrying a first bobbin of tobacco sheet and a second shaft for carrying a second bobbin of tobacco sheet. The apparatus also comprises a splicing unit for combining an end portion of tobacco sheet from the first bobbin to a head portion of tobacco sheet from the second bobbin. The splicing unit comprises a cutting device for cutting the tobacco sheets such as to provide complementary cuts to the tobacco sheets from the first bobbin and from the second bobbin, a dispensing device for dispensing water to at least one of the tobacco sheets, and a combining device for applying force onto the tobacco sheets thereby producing a spliced tobacco sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Gindrat, Alessandro Metrangolo
  • Patent number: 10159276
    Abstract: A sleeve operable to at least partially contain two cylindrical articles in side-by-side or back-to-back relation, the sleeve including first and second openings or a single opening in a bottom thereof and the first and second cylindrical articles contained within the sleeve such that portions of the first and second cylindrical articles are exposed outside the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Scott Fath, Ryan J. Sousa, Steven R. Rinehart
  • Patent number: 10159277
    Abstract: A smoking article is provided, including a combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face of the heat source; a first heat-conducting element including one or more radially inner layers of heat-conductive material overlying a rear portion of the combustible heat source; and a second heat-conducting element including one or more radially outer layers of heat-conductive material overlying at least a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate, such that the one or more radially outer layers of heat-conductive material do not overlie the one or more radially inner layers of heat-conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventor: Samuel Bonnely