228 patents
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Utility
Apparatuses for Cutting Food Products and Methods for Operating the Same
15 Jul 20
Methods and apparatuses for cutting food products.
Corey Everette Baxter, Michael Scot Jacko, Keith Alan Barber, Richard James Ruegg
Filed: 6 Jan 20
Utility
Convertible Shelf-ready Shipping Container
15 Jul 20
A shelf-ready shipping container, including a cardboard shipping box, the cardboard shipping box including a base tray, a removable top formed continuously with the base tray, a tear strip disposed at an interface of the base tray and the removable top, where tearing away the tear strip separates the removable top from the base tray.
Peter James LOHOFF
Filed: 13 Jan 19
Utility
Apparatus and Method for Adjusting the Cutting Thickness of a Food Cutting Apparatus
8 Jul 20
An apparatus for cutting food products is disclosed.
Keith A. Barber, Richard J. Ruegg
Filed: 6 Jan 20
Utility
Beverage Ingredient Cartridge
1 Jul 20
A beverage ingredient cartridge for releasing beverage ingredients into a bottle to create a mixed beverage includes a body defining a liquid-ingredient chamber, a cap defining a solid-ingredient chamber, and an opening mechanism disposed on the cap.
Advait BHAT, Girish Nilkanth DESHPANDE, Maximiliano RODRIGUEZ, Benjamin Joseph TANTANELLA, Bruno TELESCA, Alexander David WARNING, Lei ZHAO, Nathan Daniel GRUBBS, Ryan Alan KLENKE
Filed: 27 Dec 18
Utility
Printed User Interface
1 Jul 20
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide for a cost-reduced touch sensitive user interface including a static printed display.
Martin Eduardo BROEN, Dominick SALVATO, Peter Randall DALY
Filed: 11 Mar 20
Utility
Real-time Quality Monitoring of Beverage Batch Production Using Densitometry
24 Jun 20
Aspects of the disclosure include a method for producing a batch according to a batch process that includes adding ingredients to water to form a batch, mixing the batch, measuring the drive gain of the batch in real time using an in-line density device, monitoring amplitude variation of the drive gain, comparing the amplitude variation of the drive gain to a predetermined threshold, and providing an indication based on the amplitude variation of the drive gain that the batch is homogeneously dispersed or fully dissolved.
Saman CHOUBAK, Badreddine AHTCHI-ALI
Filed: 13 Feb 20
Utility
Method and Product for Hydrolysis of Lactose in Dairy Compositions
17 Jun 20
A dairy product comprising a sweetened dairy composition with a mass ratio of lactose to glucose equal to 1.0:2.7 to 2.6:1.5 and a mass ratio of lactose to galactose equal to 1.0:2.2 to 2.6:1.1.
Susan Lawlor, Patrick Maher, David McDonagh, Maksim N. Omarov
Filed: 21 Nov 19
Utility
System and Method for Mobile Recycling Validation
17 Jun 20
A mobile recycling validation system including a mobile recycling application operating on a user's mobile device, at least one server remote from the mobile device, where the mobile recycling application may receive image data relating to an image captured with a camera of the mobile device, identify a unique code printed on a recyclable item depicted in the image, determine unique code data relating to the unique code, determine recycling deposit confirmation data, and send the unique code data and the recycling deposit confirmation data to the server.
Martin Eduardo BROEN, Ryan James CAMPBELL, Marco CIMATTI, Christopher NOBLES, Christian STOLARZ
Filed: 13 Dec 18
Utility
Non-electric Fountain Beverage Dispensers and Systems
10 Jun 20
Non-electric fountain beverage dispensers for dispensing a variety of beverages without the use of electricity.
Amandeep Singh GULATI, Gurmeet Singh BHUTANI, Rahul Sadashiv KAMBLE
Filed: 3 Dec 19
Utility
Modular Vending Machines
3 Jun 20
Modular vending machines for storing and dispensing products to consumers.
Robert CRAWFORD, Emad JAFA, Cheuk Chi LAU, Xuejun LI, Yong SEROCK, Wai Ting CHAN, Samuel Luke JOHNSTONE, Martyn Thomas MITCHELL, Euan MORRISON, Erik David WILLIAMS
Filed: 29 Nov 18
Utility
Manufacture of Snack Food Pellets
20 May 20
A method of manufacturing a starch-based snack food pellet for manufacturing an expanded snack food, the method comprising the steps of: feeding a first starch ingredient into a cooking device; inputting mechanical and thermal energy into the cooking device so as to cook and gelatinise the first starch ingredient in the cooking device, thereby to provide a processed starch component; adding a potato starch ingredient comprising native potato starch to the processed starch component to provide a starch mixture; and forming the starch mixture into pellets by extrusion.
James WILLIAMS, Marcel OOST INDIE, Kal EZZAT, Rachel MALLINDER
Filed: 29 May 18
Utility
Snack Food Manufacture
6 May 20
A method of making a snack food in the form of snack food chips, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing at least one pre-processed vegetable material, the pre-processed vegetable material including at least one bioactive component which comprises a polyphenol or a glucosinolate or a mixture of any two or more thereof, wherein the at least one pre-processed vegetable material is in a freeze-dried form, in an individually quick frozen (IQF) form, in a defrosted, chilled or fresh comminuted form and/or in a defrosted, chilled or fresh pulp form; b. incorporating the at least one pre-processed vegetable material into a dough, wherein the dough is a potato-based dough, and wherein the dough forms individual dough sheet portions, and the snack food is in the form of snack food chips; c. cooking the dough sheet portions to form a cooked snack food in the form of snack food chips, the cooked snack food having a moisture content after the cooking step of from 5 to 25 wt % based on the weight of the cooked snack food, wherein the cooking comprises baking, microwave cooking, infrared cooking or radio frequency (RF) cooking; and d. drying the cooked snack food to form a dried snack food which has a moisture content after the drying step of from 1 to 4 wt %, based on the weight of the dried cooked snack food.
Michael Alfred James SPURR, Rachael ALLEN, John Richard BOWS, Bruce R. LINTER, David HART, Paul Antony KROON
Filed: 4 Jul 18
Utility
Interactive Vending Machine
6 May 20
A vending machine has an interactive customer experience.
Emad JAFA, Xuejun LI, Yong SEROCK, Cheuk Chi LAU, Martyn Thomas MITCHELL, Euan MORRISON, Wai Ting CHAN, Samuel Luke JOHNSTONE, Erik David WILLIAMS
Filed: 1 Nov 18
Utility
Table Vending Machine
6 May 20
A vending machine with a reduced vertical height and footprint has a horizontal roller surface system for delivering vending products.
Emad JAFA, Xuejun LI, Yong SEROCK, Cheuk Chi LAU, Martyn Thomas MITCHELL, Euan MORRISON, Wai Ting CHAN, Samuel Luke JOHNSTONE, Erik David WILLIAMS
Filed: 1 Nov 18
Utility
Beverage Dispensing System
22 Apr 20
Systems and methods for dispensing compositions, such as beverages, are provided.
Marco CIMATTI, Anton LJUNGGREN, Martin Eduardo BROEN, Stephen LIM, Martin Ivar FRANZEN, Ivana BABIC
Filed: 20 Oct 19
Utility
Beverage Chiller
15 Apr 20
Beverage chillers are disclosed.
Prashant Deshpande, Gurmeet Bhutani, Brian Kelly, Wilton BROWN
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Plastic Bottle with Base
15 Apr 20
A beverage container for a carbonated beverage may include a body and a base.
Advait Bhat, Girolama Bueti, Syed Peer, Bruno Telesca
Filed: 14 Oct 18
Utility
Slush Beverage Dispenser and Slush Beverage Dispensing Methods
8 Apr 20
Slush beverage dispensers and methods for providing slush beverages to consumers.
Prashant DESHPANDE, Gurmeet Singh BHUTANI, Brian D. KELLY, Byron BROOKS
Filed: 6 Oct 19
Utility
Quantitative Liquid Texture Measurement Apparatus and Methods
8 Apr 20
A photo acoustic non-destructive measurement apparatus and method for quantitatively measuring texture of a liquid.
Ou BAI, Wilfred Marcellien BOURG, JR., Scott FAGAN, Enrique MICHEL-SANCHEZ, Shahmeer Ali MIRZA, Scott G. RICHARDSON, Chen C. SHAO
Filed: 4 Dec 19
Utility
Method and Composition Comprising Hydrolyzed Starch and Stabilizers
1 Apr 20
An oat composition comprising water, hydrolyzed oats, undissolved solids, dissolved solids, emulsifier, and suspension stabilizer.
Zeinab Ali, Pietro Caruso, Connie Cerdena, Kathlene McManus, Gopinathan Meletharayil, Brian Yu
Filed: 22 Sep 19