184 patents
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Utility
Water filtration system
17 Aug 21
A water-filtration system includes four distinct porous media through which water is sequentially routed in a compact, self-contained four-stage filtration process.
Vikas Kumar Sharma, Shriram Venkataraman
Filed: 21 Dec 17
Utility
Beverage dispenser with consumable monitoring system
10 Aug 21
A beverage dispenser includes a system for detecting an empty state of a consumable in the dispenser.
Rahul Kamble, Muhammad Ansari, Aleksey Bakharev
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
Beverage-ingredient cartridge and cap for beverage-ingredient cartridge
27 Jul 21
A beverage-ingredient cartridge for storing and dispensing beverage ingredients.
Advait Bhat, Girish Nilkanth Deshpande, Maximiliano Rodriguez, Benjamin Joseph Tantanella, Bruno Telesca, Nathan Daniel Grubbs, Ryan Alan Klenke
Filed: 14 Aug 19
Utility
Apparatus and method for transferring a pattern from a universal surface to an ultimate package
13 Jul 21
An apparatus and method for transferring a pattern from a universal surface to an ultimate package.
Darin James Baylor, Cory Burns, Kevin L Cote
Filed: 3 Oct 14
Utility
Oat bran composition comprising beta glucan and method of making
6 Jul 21
Providing an oat bran composition that contains water, optionally an acid, and oat bran delivering at least about 0.75 g of beta glucan per serving to provide a heart-healthy and consumer-acceptable product through application of shear to reduce viscosity.
Pietro Caruso, Consuelo Cerdena, Christopher E. Graham, Kathlene A. McManus, Gopinathan Meletharayil, Alexander Rozanski, Brian Yu
Filed: 18 Jul 19
Utility
Custom graphic film
22 Jun 21
A product, system, and method for creating a film capable of allowing a user to create a custom graphical representation is described, which may allow a user to create a custom graphical representation in a film by depressing select areas of the film to form the custom graphical representation.
Edward Peter Socci, Wenny Wingping-Ng Noha, Subhankar Chatterjee, Mikhail Laksin, Prasad K. Adhikari
Filed: 12 Apr 19
Utility
NMR-based non-invasive and quantitative food attribute measurement apparatus and method
15 Jun 21
A non-invasive NMR based apparatus for measuring a food attribute (moisture, sugar content) in food products comprises a magnetic chamber, an RF pulsing device attached to the magnetic chamber, a sensor receiver, and a data processing unit in communication with the sensor receiver.
Rick W. Bajema, Jason Ballengee, Kevin Minard
Filed: 31 Oct 18
Utility
Mouthfeel modulation in reduced and sugar-free beverages using a blend of pectin and xanthan gum
1 Jun 21
This disclosure provides beverage compositions comprising a pectin, a first xanthan gum, optionally a second xanthan gum, and a non-nutritive sweetener, such as steviol glycosides and blends thereof.
Khushal Brijwani, William Mutilangi
Filed: 8 Nov 17
Utility
Systems and methods for dispensing consumable products with voice interface
25 May 21
A method of dispensing a beverage from a beverage dispenser includes: detecting a user in proximity to the beverage dispenser; prompting the user to provide a first input, wherein the first input is audible; retrieving a user profile for the user based on the first input; receiving a second input from the user, wherein the second input comprises information about a beverage selection of the user, and wherein the second input is provided in a different manner than the first input; and dispensing the beverage.
Robert Crawford
Filed: 26 Apr 18
Utility
System and method for operating a heating element of an appliance
11 May 21
A waffle maker having a base and a waffle mold supported by the base.
Praveen Kumar Nooli
Filed: 8 Aug 19
Utility
Vacuum-insulated cooler
11 May 21
A vacuum-insulated cooler for storing products.
Emad Jafa, Xuejun Li, Cheuk Chi Lau, Drishti Masand, Priscila Lazarini
Filed: 27 Sep 19
Utility
Method and composition comprising hydrolyzed starch
13 Apr 21
A method and composition comprising hydrolyzed starch.
Gary Carder, Robert E. Chatel, Yongsoo Chung, Justin A. French, Wesley Twombly
Filed: 13 May 20
Utility
Quantitative in-situ texture measurement apparatus and method
6 Apr 21
A measurement apparatus and method for in-situ quantitative texture measurement of a food snack.
Ou Bai, Wilfred Marcellien Bourg, Jr., Enrique Michel-Sanchez, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
Filed: 3 Mar 17
Utility
Glucosyringic acid analogs as sweetness profile modifiers
6 Apr 21
Shawn Erickson, Yu-Wen Feng, Christophe Galopin, Stephen Gravina, Yuliya Kurash, Thomas Lee, Laura Nattress, Ting Wang
Filed: 19 Jul 16
Utility
Apparatus and methods of packaging particulates for settling
30 Mar 21
A vertical fill, form and seal (VFFS) apparatus for particulates that facilitates the close-packing (“settling”) of the particulates such that a smaller package is needed to contain a mass of particulates in a charge to the VFFS apparatus.
Patrick Joseph Bierschenk
Filed: 17 Feb 17
Utility
Method of and apparatus for packaging snack food chips
16 Mar 21
A method of packaging snack food chips, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of snack food chips as a shingled assembly of the snack food chips; (b) enclosing the shingled assembly within an elongate packaging container; (c) vibrating the shingled assembly supported so as to cause the snack food chips sequentially to fall from a free output end into the elongate packaging container while progressively translationally separating a closed end and the free output end to form a shingled stack extending away from the closed end; and (d) during at least a part of step (c), rotating the elongate packaging container so that the closed end is lowered while decreasing an angle of inclination such that the shingled stack is being progressively formed.
Bob Abbas, Michael Brandt, Jan Christopher Fuller
Filed: 8 Aug 17
Utility
Quantitative liquid texture measurement apparatus and method
9 Mar 21
A photo acoustic non-destructive measurement apparatus and method for quantitatively measuring texture of a food snack is disclosed.
Ou Bai, Wilfred Marcellien Bourg, Jr., Scott Fagan, Enrique Michel-Sanchez, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Scott G. Richardson, Chen C. Shao
Filed: 25 Jul 18
Utility
Fixing wrap-around labels with LED-curable adhesives
9 Mar 21
Provided herewith are methods of preparing a labeled article comprising curing an LED-curable adhesive on a film label such as a shrink film label, wherein at least portions of the LED-curable adhesive are disposed in the overlap formed between a leading edge and trailing edge of the film label.
Laura A. Dellevigne, Bruno Telesca, Mikhail Laksin, James A. Stevenson, Paul J. Donnelly, Marc T. Wiescinski, Brijesh K. Nigam
Filed: 14 Jul 17
Utility
Sweetness enhancer
2 Mar 21
The present disclosure provides sweetener compositions, methods of using these compositions, and foods, beverages, and syrups comprising these compositions.
Thomas Lee, Gregory Yep
Filed: 10 Sep 15
Utility
Beverage dispenser systems and methods
2 Mar 21
A cartridge adaptor system may include a puncturing device; a nozzle adaptor including: a puncture port configured to receive the puncturing device; a nozzle coupling portion configured to releasably couple to a beverage dispenser nozzle; and a cartridge coupling portion configured to releasably couple to a cartridge containing a beverage ingredient; and a cartridge holster having a receiving portion for receiving a portion of the cartridge.
Maher Nachawati
Filed: 31 Jan 18