With Additional Nonproteinaceous Organic Compound Containing Oxygen Patents (Class 106/156.31)
  • Collagen based materials
    Patent number: 10046087
    Abstract: There are provided collagen based polymeric materials comprising collagen molecules and/or collagen derived molecules which have been functionalized by the addition of one or more ethylenically unsaturated moieties and which have been cross-linked via said moieties. Also provided are collagen based compositions and methods of producing collagen based polymeric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: University of Leeds
    Inventors: Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen John Russell, David John Wood
  • Sausage production machine comprising a device for the coagulation of the sausage casing and production line comprising said machine
    Patent number: 9763458
    Abstract: A machine including a supply of gelling agent (45), a supply of acidic buffer solution (47), a third supply of food inlet (51) connected to a source of food (53), a mixer (27) connected to the gelling agent and acidic buffer solution supplies, for delivering a mixture of gelling agent and acidic buffer solution, and a co-extruder (31) fed with food (51) and with said mixture, for extruding the food at the center and the mixture at the periphery, so as to obtain the expected food product at the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MAREL FRANCE
    Inventors: Jacques Le Paih, Yohann Pierre, Fabrice Le Pabic, Leon Spierts, Patricia Hoekstra-Suurs, Johannes Kools, Johannes Meulendijks
  • Carboxyl-modified superabsorbent protein hydrogel
    Patent number: 6310105
    Abstract: The present invention is a biodegradable, reversibly-swellable, polyvalent cation-binding, protein hydrogel which comprises an acylated protein matrix in which the acylated protein matrix is crosslinked with a bifunctional crosslinking reagent, and treated with a polar organic solvent, and a method of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Srinivasan Damodaran