Patents Issued in March 1, 2022
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Patent number: 11259494Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077345. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077345. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077345 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077345 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Jennifer L. Yates
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Patent number: 11259495Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 90381408 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 90381408, to the plants of soybean cultivar 90381408, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 90381408, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 90381408. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90381408. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90381408, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 90381408 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 11259496Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Terry Berke
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Patent number: 11259497Abstract: A countertop cooking appliance is an apparatus that is used to manufacture food, particularly cheeses, with controlled heating, mixing, drainage, and pressure cycles. The apparatus is also configured to accept various cooking patterns for different foods based on different recipes. A perforated drainer is used to hold ingredients for mixing, completed cheese curds, and the finalized cheese product. A processing receptacle is a container that holds the perforated drainer and temporarily stores whey and process byproducts. A byproduct receptacle is a storage unit for whey and other liquid byproducts produced in the cheese development process. A fluid pump applies pressure to fluids collected in the processing receptacle, transferring them to the byproduct receptacle. A linear actuator provides mechanical power to one of several detachable food-interacting heads, which consequently chops, mixes, or otherwise agitates the contents of the perforated container.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Glen Andrew Feder
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Patent number: 11259498Abstract: A poultry barn robot for robotically preforming various poultry barn operation tasks that includes a chassis, a collection platform pivotally mounted to the chassis, and an conveyor connected to the chassis, wherein the conveyor includes conveyor system for conveying at least one of dead birds and manure cakes from a bedded floor of a poultry barn to the collection platform. The robot additionally includes at least one equipment cabinet mounted to the chassis, and at least one controller that is structured and operable to control: movement of the robot through the poultry barn; movement of the conveyor system; and movement of the collection platform between a Collection position and a Disposal position.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: ENERGY AMERICAS, LLCInventor: Yunsheng Xu
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Patent number: 11259499Abstract: The present invention provides improved systems and methods for flushing out animal footbaths at remote locations which do not have a reliable or high pressure water supply. Embodiments of the flushing systems of the present invention preferably include at least one fluid pressurizing pump and one or more large fluid storage tanks which receive water from a source and place it under pressure for use in the system.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Specialty Sales, LLCInventors: Greg Petersen, Donald Alsup
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Patent number: 11259500Abstract: An edible pet chew has an initially malleable sheet of a hardened chewable material dimensioned large enough and thin enough to be initially malleable for flexing, folding or rolling into a final shape. The sheet is shaped into a final shape by flexing, folding or rolling and then hardened.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: PetMatrix LLCInventors: Mark Stern, Peter B. Wheeler
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Patent number: 11259501Abstract: A vibratory detector for detecting a vibratory signal from one or more feeders. A processor is in communication with the vibratory detector and configured for determining from at least one characteristic of the vibratory signal a possible action event, and for determining from a pattern of possible action events a likely action event. A warning device is in communication with the processor for providing an output in response to the likely action event. In an embodiment, the at least one characteristic of the vibratory signal can comprise the frequency or magnitude of the vibratory signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SWINETECH, INC.Inventors: Abraham Espinoza, Matthew Rooda, John Rourke
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Patent number: 11259502Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intelligent pet monitoring method for a robot. A mutual position relationship between a pet and a robot is determined according to wireless communication between a wireless signal device on the pet and the robot, and then a grid position corresponding to the pet in a grid map constructed by the robot is determined according to the mutual position relationship. Daily activities of the pet may also be regular, to a certain extent, under the influence of a biological clock of the pet, so that big data generated by the grid positions of the pet at different time points is finally recorded to construct the pet daily activity model, and the daily activity trajectory of the pet may be predicted according to the pet daily activity model.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: AMICRO SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gangjun Xiao, Taiming Huang
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Patent number: 11259503Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing feed to chickens includes a container defining an interior volume configured to hold said feed, baffles connected to said container and projecting into said interior volume, and feeder holes located through said container. The baffles are configured to direct said feed toward said feeder holes.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Joe W. Broussard, Sr.
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Patent number: 11259504Abstract: A system and method to promote biological responses within incubated eggs using lighting devices within an incubation chamber. A light supporting device is installed within the incubation chamber in spaced relation to an incubation device housing a plurality of eggs. The light supporting device is positioned to direct light at pre-determined wavelengths into the interior cavity of the incubation device to irradiate the plurality of eggs to promote a biological response within the eggs.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Zdenko Grajcar, Kevin Payne, Karol Licko, Peter Simko, Josef Hoffmann
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Patent number: 11259505Abstract: An apparatus for washing shell eggs includes a washing unit and an egg conveyor extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a transverse direction. The longitudinal and transverse directions define a conveyor plane. Spray nozzles are arranged in the washing unit above the conveyor plane so that in a first step the eggs can be subjected to a liquid jet from a first liquid spray nozzle spraying in a first spray direction, and in a second step the eggs can be subjected to a liquid jet from a second liquid spray nozzle spraying in a second spray direction. The first and second spray nozzles are arranged on opposite sides of the egg when seen in the transverse direction and at a distance above the conveyor plane so that the liquid sprayed in the first and second spray directions hits the egg from opposite sides in a downwards angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Sanovo Technology A/SInventors: Jan Holst Holm, Aksel Morten Madsen
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Patent number: 11259506Abstract: A bird mister apparatus for attracting and cooling birds includes a base plate, a housing, and a reservoir within a housing inside configured to hold liquid that can be sealed and unsealed. A spout has a spout aperture extending through to the housing inside. A pump is coupled within the housing inside and is in fluid communication with the spout aperture. An inlet tube is coupled to the pump and is in fluid communication with the pump. A CPU is coupled within the housing inside and is in operational communication with the pump. A battery is in operational communication with the CPU and the pump. A power switch is in operational communication with the CPU to activate and alternatively deactivate the pump. A hanger is coupled to the housing to support the apparatus on a tree branch, a fence, or an awning.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Robert Thompson
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Patent number: 11259507Abstract: A roof cover for a fish farm, in which solar cells may be arranged on the roof cover to collect solar energy, and where the roof cover is resistant to weather conditions, and where the roof cover provides a controlled environment for fish farming by protecting it from wind and weather.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Unitech Offshore ASInventors: Bernt Henrik Hellesøe, Gunnar William Birkeland, Leiv Gunnar Wanvik, Christine Ledergerber Hinderling, Issam Kabbani
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Patent number: 11259508Abstract: A fish farm with a float ring, and a net fixed to the float ring. The float is flexible and is designed with an exterior walkway and interior room for personnel. At least one door or hatch provides access between the exterior walkway and the interior room for personnel.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Unitech Offshore ASInventors: Bernt Henrik Hellesøe, Gunnar William Birkeland, Leiv Gunnar Wanvik
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Patent number: 11259509Abstract: Four zebrafish gene promoters, which are skin specific, muscle specific, skeletal muscle specific and ubiquitously expressed respectively, were isolated and ligated to the 5? end of the EGFP gene. When the resulting chimeric gene constructs were introduced into zebrafish, the transgenic zebrafish emit green fluorescence under a blue light or ultraviolet light according to the specificity of the promoters used. Thus, new varieties of ornamental fish of different fluorescence patterns, e.g., skin fluorescence, muscle fluorescence, skeletal muscle-specific and/or ubiquitous fluorescence, are developed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Zhiyuan Gong, Jiangyan He, Bensheng Ju, Toong Jin Lam, Yanfei Xu, Tie Yan
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Patent number: 11259510Abstract: Disclosed herein are non-human animals (e.g., rodents, e.g., mice or rats) genetically engineered to express a humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized CD4 and/or CD8 (e.g., CD8? and/or CD8?)), a human or humanized T cell receptor (TCR) comprising a variable domain encoded by at least one human TCR variable region gene segment and/or a human or humanized major histocompatibility complex that binds the humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., human or humanized MHC II (e.g., MHC II ? and/or MHC II ? chains) and/or MHC I (e.g., MHC I ?) respectively, and optionally human or humanized ? 2 microglobulin). Also provided are embryos, tissues, and cells expressing the same. Methods for making a genetically engineered animal that expresses at least one humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized CD4 and/or CD8), at least one humanized MHC that associates with the humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized MHC II and/or MHC I, respectively) and/or the humanized TCR are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Lynn Macdonald, Andrew J. Murphy, Cagan Gurer, Christos Kyratsous
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Patent number: 11259511Abstract: A branch fishing rod assembly for creating a fishing rod out of a branch or stick includes a reel holder apparatus, a reel, and a plurality of eyelet apparatuses. The reel holder apparatus comprises a holder body and a pair of holder clamps coupled to the holder body to secure the holder body to a branch or a stick. The reel is selectively engageable within a reel opening of the holder body. The plurality of eyelet apparatuses each comprises an eyelet clamp to selectively engage the branch or the stick. An attachment arm is coupled to the eyelet clamp strap and an eyelet is coupled to the attachment arm. The reel is configured to secure a fishing line and the plurality of eyelet apparatuses is configured to receive the fishing line through each eyelet.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Dustin Albrecht
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Patent number: 11259512Abstract: A dual-driving one-way rotational device includes: a body part; a clutch bearing part configured to guide the rotation of the body part in one direction; a knob part configured to be rotated in one direction in the state of being connected to an object to be rotated or to prevent the body part from being rotated together when the object to be rotated and the clutch bearing part are rotated in the same direction; a manual rotation lever installed on the body part; and a power transmission shaft coupled to the knob part, and configured to transfer the power of a power source. The knob part includes a rotation portion and a head portion. A spiral is formed on the inner circumferences of the rotation portion and the head portion. The power transmission shaft has the outer circumference on which a spiral is formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Jin Su Lee
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Patent number: 11259513Abstract: An Electric clip receiver that is attached to an outrigger. The electric clip receiver comprises of a housing that is configured to attach to either to a shock cord clip or to a fixed mount on a boat via a mounting bracket that is attached to the housing. An electric motor that has a gear that is powered by a battery source that is housed within the housing. a pulley that is attached to the housing and an outrigger line that is looped on the pulley that is configured to be connected to the outrigger. An outrigger release clip that is attached to the outrigger line at a specific location. A microchip that is programmed to control the electric motor's forward and reverse function that is housed within the housing. And, a switch that controls the microchip's control of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Erick Bravo
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Patent number: 11259514Abstract: A lighted fishing pole holder has a top mount that is attached to the gunwale in the usual way, the top mount having an upper surface, a lower surface seated on the gunwale and a central opening. The top mount has a fishing pole receiving tube member depending downwardly therefrom. The tube member has a base such that a light element is positioned on the base, either atop or embedded therein, the light elements facing toward the central opening. The light element is connected to the boat's electrical system or to a battery and issues light into the tube member which is directed out through the central opening of the top mount. A remote control can control various operations of the light element.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventors: John L Larsson, Clinton Herrin
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Patent number: 11259515Abstract: A computing system includes image receiving logic configured to receive image data indicative of an image of a field, ground identification logic configured to identify a first image portion of the image representing ground in the field, image segmentation logic configured to identify a remaining image portion that omits the first image portion from the image, and crop classification logic configured to apply a crop classifier to the remaining image portion and identify a second image portion of the image that represents locations of crop plants in the field. The computing system also includes weed identification logic configured to identify locations of weed plants in the field based on the identification of the first and second image portions and control signal generation logic configured to generate a machine control signal based on the identified locations of the weed plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Deere & Company, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Tarik Loukili, Timothy A. Bigelow
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Patent number: 11259516Abstract: A method of controlling the growth of a plant is provided, the method including the steps of: (a) inserting a capsule containing an agent into an opening formed in a plant; and (b) closing the opening formed in the plant into which the capsule is inserted. The agent may be a chemical agent. The plant may be a woody plant, such as a woody weed or a woody cultivated plant. Also provided is a capsule containing an agent for insertion into a plant, and an apparatus for insertion of a capsule into a plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: BioHerbicides Australia Pty LtdInventors: Peter Riikonen, Kenneth Clifford Goulter
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Patent number: 11259517Abstract: Pest-management apparatuses (e.g., stations), such as, for example, that can configured to permit a rodent to enter and retrieve a bait and/or become trapped (e.g., adhesive or a snap-trap).Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: VM Products, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Vickery, Larry Covington
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Patent number: 11259518Abstract: An enclosure-type electronic rat trap having an interior accessed through a trap entrance and a rat pathway that leads from the entrance to a baited end opposite the entrance is provided. At least three killing plates coupled to a high voltage circuit are positioned along the pathway in spaced relationship and a barrier extends into and constricts the pathway at a specified distance from a center plate in order to reduce the ability of the rat to escape the trap once the rat has traveled along the pathway sufficiently to initiate a killing cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Paul Michael Kletzli, Cory John Blair, Mark William Ebner
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Patent number: 11259519Abstract: An artificial licking branch comprising a unitary, portable, and handheld branch body of a polymeric material and a plurality of cantilevered branch members, each projecting outwardly away from the branch body and including an absorbent textile material patch disposed along a portion of the branch member length on each of the plurality of cantilevered branch members. The absorbent textile material is designed to absorb and store natural and synthetic preorbital deer scents or lures for the purpose of indicating deer presence to other deer and for improving hunters' scouting and hunting experience upon their being able to monitor the number and type of deer that physically interact with the artificial licking branch.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HighTower Products LLCInventor: Paul Miller
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Patent number: 11259520Abstract: A stem cell manufacturing system for manufacturing stem cells from somatic cells includes: one or more closed production device(s) configured to produce stem cells from somatic cells; one or more drive device(s) configured to be connected with the production device(s) and drive the production device(s) in such a manner as to maintain the production device(s) in an environment suitable for producing stem cells; one or more cryopreservation device(s) configured to cryopreserve the produced stem cells; a first memory device configured to store whether or not somatic cells have been introduced to the production device(s), as a first state; a second memory device configured to store whether or not the production device(s) is/are connected with the drive device(s), as a second state; and a third memory device configured to store whether or not the produced stem cells can be placed in the cryopreservation device(s), as a third state.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: FANUC CORPORATION, I PEACE, INC.Inventors: Koji Tanabe, Kiyonori Inaba, Masaru Oda
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Patent number: 11259521Abstract: Novel antimicrobial compositions and kits thereof containing these antimicrobial compositions, methods of manufacture and methods of use thereof are disclosed. The novel aqueous transdermal or topical delivery systems are useful, inter alia, for treatment of various microbial infections, including for use on tissue infections, particularly skin antisepsis and/or nasal mucosal tissue antisepsis to a mammalian host in need thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Infection Containment Company, LLCInventors: Dennie W. Dyer, John A. Garruto
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Patent number: 11259522Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of controlling pesticide resistant pests comprising exposing the pesticide resistant pests to a pest controlling amount of a triketone compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: BIO-GENE TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Robert Klupacs, Peter May
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Patent number: 11259524Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as fungicides.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Thomas James Hoffman, Daniel Stierli, André Jeanguenat, Renaud Beaudegnies, Martin Pouliot
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Patent number: 11259525Abstract: The present invention provide stable agrochemical compositions comprising 2-amino-4-[hydroxy(methyl)phosphinoyl]butyric acid (glufosinate), an organosilicone adjuvant, a nonionic surfactant and optionally one or more other active ingredients. A process for the preparation of such compositions and their use in controlling weeds are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: UPL LIMITEDInventors: Satish Ekanath Bhoge, Paresh Vithaldas Talati, Jaidev Rajnikant Shroff, Vikram Rajnikant Shroff
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Patent number: 11259526Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel fungal strains capable of solubilizing phosphate, as well as compositions and methods of using those strains to increase the amount/concentration of soluble phosphate in a medium that comprises insoluble phosphate.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/SInventors: Dave Greenshields, Caressa Caldwell, Shelagh Steckler, Kari Priest, Michael Frodyma
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Patent number: 11259527Abstract: Methods of improving characteristics of plants and soil by administering an effective amount of a extracted Haematococcus based composition in low concentration applications are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HELIAE DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Sandip Shinde, Stephen Ventre, Nicholas Donowitz, Michael Clint Rohlfsen, Laura Carney
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Patent number: 11259528Abstract: In one example embodiment, a system for treating a tissue site is disclosed comprising a dressing adapted to contact the tissue site and provide a fluid seal between a therapeutic environment and a local external environment, and a solution source fluidly coupled to the dressing and adapted to deliver an antimicrobial solution comprising a peroxy ?-keto carboxylic acid, such as peroxy pyruvic acid, to the tissue interface. The system may further comprise a negative-pressure source fluidly coupled to the dressing and adapted to provide negative pressure to the therapeutic environment after delivery of the antimicrobial fluid to the therapeutic environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.Inventors: Shannon C. Ingram, Christopher A. Carroll
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Patent number: 11259529Abstract: Example aspects of a baking tray and a method for using a baking tray are disclosed. The baking tray can comprise a baking tray body; and a baking cup formed in the baking tray body, the baking cup defining a baking cavity and an aperture formed through the baking cup. The method can comprise providing a baking tray, the baking tray comprising a baking cup formed in a baking tray body, the baking cup defining a baking cavity and an aperture formed through the baking cup; inserting a dough into the baking cavity; and baking the dough in the baking tray to form a baked good.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: BITEZIES, INC.Inventor: Rachel M. Fletcher
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Patent number: 11259530Abstract: The invention relates to a device for guiding and supplying dough to a dough processing or transporting means comprising a receiving chamber with at least one belt conveyor comprising a conveyor belt forming at least part of a side wall of the receiving chamber. The receiving chamber is further provided with at least two sealing strips mounted at opposing side ends of the conveyor, wherein the sealing strips create a seal between the conveyor belt and an adjacent stationary wall forming another part of the side wall of the receiving chamber. The invention further relates to a chunker for subdividing dough into smaller parts comprising said device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Johannes Josephus Antonius Van Blokland
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Patent number: 11259531Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods for processing and grading food articles including x-raying the food articles a first time and taking a 3D image of the food articles.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Valka EHFInventors: Helgi Hjalmarsson, Einar Bjorn Jonsson, Hannes Gunnarsson, Ingolfur Harri Hermannsson, Jon Eiriksson
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Patent number: 11259532Abstract: Disclosed are packaging systems and method useful in extending the storage-life of foodstuff such as fresh fish. The packaging systems and methods can be used to transport or store the foodstuff for an extended period of time. The packaging systems preferably use a fuel cell to maintain a reduced oxygen level in the environment surrounding the foodstuff.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: GLOBAL FRESH FOODSInventors: Laurence D. Bell, David G. Schanzer, Brian J. Westcott
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Patent number: 11259533Abstract: A control system for controlling the storage of metabolically active produce in a defined confined environment. The control system comprises gas analyzing and pressure measurement means including a control unit for determining an adjusted gas medium composition of the confined environment for protecting the produce against metabolic degradation. An operating/actuating means for adapting the gas medium in the confined storage environment is based on the determined adjusted gas medium composition. The control unit is adapted for determining the adjusted gas medium composition based on a mathematical model of the system that determines a metabolic coefficient of the produce by combining measured changes of gas composition in the confined environment with dynamic pressure changes in the confined space. The value of the metabolic coefficient is used as input for a control algorithm to continuously adjust the gas composition in the confined space in response to the metabolic activity of the produce.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: OPTIFLUX NVInventors: Niels Bessemans, Bart Nicolai, Pieter Verboven, Bert Verlinden
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Patent number: 11259534Abstract: The invention discloses a method for producing a deodorized goat/sheep milk, which method comprises purifying fresh goat/sheep milk or goat/sheep full cream, wherein the material is subjected to a carbon dioxide treatment during the purification, and the carbon dioxide treatment comprises: introducing carbon dioxide into the material, then refrigerating the material, and removing carbon dioxide. The producing method of the invention is simple, and has a good effect of removing muttony odor of goat/sheep milk. The present invention also discloses a deodorized goat/sheep milk and a deodorized goat/sheep milk product.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: INNER MONGOLIA YILI INDUSTRIAL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Pengfei Chang, Biao Liu, Xiaoyu Kong
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Patent number: 11259535Abstract: Food products and systems and methods for their production involve subjecting pasteurized milk to a concentration process thereby forming liquid concentrated milk, then fermenting the liquid concentrated milk to form a fermented concentrated milk product. The fermented concentrated milk product is combined with a liquid emulsifying agent, thereby forming a food product. The food product is formed without the fermented concentrated milk product and the food product reaching a temperature of 145° F.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Land O'Lakes, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Alexander Glenn, III, Christina Maria Di Pietro
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Patent number: 11259536Abstract: Processing of milk raw material produces a dairy salt. Preliminary treatment of the milk raw is carried out, with pasteurization and its concentration by nanofiltration through a filter with a pore size of 0.001-0.01 ?m, subsequent filtration of the obtained nanofiltration permeate through a membrane module with a pore size of 0.0001-0.001 ?m of a reverse osmosis unit, electrodialysis of the obtained RO retentate, concentration of the concentrate or its concentration and drying. The dairy salts may be manufactured and used to salt food products, beverages, granulated cottage cheese, potato chips, crackers, and dips. A masking fraction with organic acid, amino acid, fatty acid, and sugar portions successfully hides the off-notes otherwise associated with potassium compositions. Food products salted with any of the dairy salts described herein achieve reduced sodium content without compromising flavor.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Wimm-Bill-Dann OJSCInventors: Grigoriy A. Dudarev, Stephen Gravina, Sivaraj Kaliappan, Sergey N. Knyazev, Yuliya Kurash, Maksim N. Omarov, Sergey I. Perminov, Vitaliy S. Somov, James William Stalder
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Patent number: 11259537Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a shelf stable ready-to-drink beverage product, comprising the steps of: providing an ingredient composition comprising micellar caseins and whey protein, having a total protein concentration of 1.5-8 wt. %, and wherein the composition has a casein to whey protein ratio of 90/10-60/40, adding divalent cations to provide a concentration of 3-20 mM free divalent cations in the ingredient composition, and 0.025-0.3 wt % of a stabilizing system comprising hydrocolloids, and subsequently heat treating the ingredient composition at ultra high temperature (UHT) at 135-150° C. for 3-30 s to form agglomerated proteins comprising casein and beta-lactoglobulin from the whey protein, the agglomerates having a size of 5-30 microns mean diameter D(4,3) as measured by laser diffraction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Alexander A. Sher, Yubin Ye, Margaret Schneider, Philippe Rousset, Madansinh Nathusinh Vaghela
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Patent number: 11259538Abstract: Pasta filata cheese products of the Mozzarella type are suggested, obtainable or obtained by: (a) subjecting milk to bactofugation or filtration, obtaining a bactofugate or a bacterial concentrate and a treated milk; (b) sterilising and, optionally, standardising the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b); (c) blending the treated milk of step (a) with the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate of step (b); (d) coagulating the blended product of step (c) while adding starter cultures and/or rennet; (e) separating the coagulated milk of step (d) into whey and curd; (f) processing the whey with fine curd particles contained therein obtained in step (e) into a stable suspension; (g) subjecting the curd obtained in step (e) to heat treatment, and (h) shaping the heat-treated product of step (g), wherein the suspension produced in step (f) is either added to the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (a), or to the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial conType: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbHInventors: Henk Van Der Velde, Ralf Mankiewitz, Deyk Tiedemann
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Patent number: 11259539Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a cheese-flavored substance, including adding a bacterial cell disrupted product obtained by disrupting lactic acid bacteria and an enzyme to a milk raw material to cause a reaction. The present invention can provide a method for producing a cheese-flavored substance which can safely and efficiently produce a cheese-flavored substance having a more natural cheese flavor at low-cost with simple operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: MEIJI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuji Tamura, Junya Ishida, Motofumi Takahashi, Nobutaka Yahiro
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Patent number: 11259540Abstract: A cocoa powder with improved dispersibility.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Erik Paul Alosin Berenschot, Piet Bogart
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Patent number: 11259541Abstract: There is described an edible particulate material comprising from 80% to 100% by weight based on total weight of the material of a processable, microbially released, flavour acceptable bran-like material, characterized by the following parameters: (i) mean particle size by volume (Vol. MPS) of from 5 to 100 microns; (ii) volume particle size distribution (Vol. PSD) characterized by the parameters: D90,3 less than or equal to 350 microns, and D50,3 less than or equal to 50 microns, and optionally D10,3 less than or equal to 15 microns, (iii) mean particle sphericity as measured by a Smean of greater than or equal to 0.75; (iv) where processable means has oil holding capacity (OHC) of from 0.7 to 1.5; (v) where microbially released means material has common microbes below given limits (preferably free of common microbes) (vi) where flavour acceptable denotes a lipase activity (LA) and a peroxidase activity (PA) both less than or equal to 2 U/g optionally a low degree of roasted flavour notes as defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Madian Othman Abu-Hardan, Gijsbert Adriaan Bonarius, Patrick Clement, Sophie Marion, Benedict Timothy Clark, Stuart David Hamer Jones
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Patent number: 11259542Abstract: An apparatus for delivering particulate material to a frozen confectionery material to provide a single serving to a consumer. The apparatus comprises a chamber for storing the particulate material, and a supply of frozen confectionery. The chamber has an open exit, wherein the chamber is adapted to be rotatable in use such that the open exit follows a pathway having both an upper region and a lower region, and arranged to pass through the lower region at a non-zero speed a plurality of times during a single serving. The open exit is sized to allow a portion of stored particulate material to fall out of the chamber via the open exit under gravity each time the open exit passes through the lower region of the pathway. The apparatus also is arranged to bring particulate material that has left the chamber into contact with the supply of frozen confectionery.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Varkey Berty Jacob, Frederick Jethro Harrison, Mark John Pawulski, Paul Scott, Andrew Julian Stockdale, Benjamin John Strutt
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Patent number: 11259543Abstract: A novel frozen confection sauce composition comprising from 10 to 18 wt % vegetable fat that is solid at 4° C., from 24 to 32 wt % vegetable fat that is liquid at 4° C., from 5 to 10 wt % nut paste and from 30 to 40 wt % sugar. A novel frozen confection sauce composition for the reduction of sugar bloom.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Kerry Luxembourg S.á.r.l.Inventors: Lena Johannsen, Ingeborg Neumaier-Ladd
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Patent number: 11259544Abstract: The invention encompasses methods of preparing a stratified frozen confection for hand consumption and the related confection. The methods include filling an aliquot container defining a three dimensional shape with at least one open end with an amount of a frozen material, reducing the temperature of the frozen material within the scoop to about ?12.2° C. (10° F.) or less; placing a first surface of the frozen material in contact with an interior surface of a first substrate, the first substrate having a length dimension an a width dimension; removing the frozen material from the aliquot container. The first surface of the frozen material is in contact with the interior surface of the first substrate and a second surface of the frozen material is positioned in a plane above the plane of the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Louis G. Klause