184 patents
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Utility
Ready-to-drink plant protein beverage product and methods for making same
19 Oct 20
Ready-to-drink beverages comprise a significant amount of complete protein per 8 fluid-ounce serving, the proteins derived from a plant protein blend comprising a legume protein, a whole grain protein, and a dairy or wheat protein.
Cosmin Beliciu, Douglas Bolster, Jaydeepsinh Chauhan, Shellen Goltz, Alison Kamil, Catalin Moraru, Ricardo Pereyra, Malcond Valladares
Filed: 23 Apr 18
Utility
NMR-based non-invasive and quantitative food attribute measurement apparatus and method
12 Oct 20
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: 30 Oct 18
Utility
Feedback control of food texture system and method
5 Oct 20
A feedback and feedforward as well as a statistical predictive control system and method for continuously controlling texture of a food snack in a manufacturing process.
Ou Bai, Wilfred Marcellien Bourg, Jr., Scott Fagan, Enrique Michel-Sanchez, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
Filed: 6 Apr 16
Utility
Beverage dispensing system
28 Sep 20
A beverage dispensing system is provided.
Joseph J. Madden, Steven T. Jersey, Scott Thomas Loomis, Fernando A. Ubidia
Filed: 25 Jul 19
Utility
Apparatus for production of snack food pellets
14 Sep 20
An apparatus for separating a ribbon of uncooked embossed dough into separated pieces patterned/shaped like the embossed pattern.
Samuel Asiedu Asante, Rudolph L. Bazaldua, Sonny Beckman, Ajay Rajeshwar Bhaskar, Bhima Geera, Lori Glanz, Nick Ladin, V. N. Mohan Rao, David L. Sanchez, William Yang
Filed: 10 May 18
Utility
Beverage nanoemulstions produced by high shear processing
14 Sep 20
The present disclosure relates beverage nanoemulsions and methods for making such beverage nanoemulsions.
Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali
Filed: 11 Jul 18
Utility
Method and apparatus for a product settler
7 Sep 20
A method and apparatus for settling a product in a partially formed package.
Eduard Edwards, Chad Arthur Huebner
Filed: 22 Dec 14
Utility
Flexible jaws for vertical fill form and seal apparatus and methods of use
31 Aug 20
A vertical form fill and seal apparatus, for packaging particulates, includes a package sealing assembly that has opposed sealing jaws operatively coupled to each other by mechanical connection at a common pivot point.
Patrick Joseph Bierschenk, Frank Mathew Brenkus, Ronald M. Gust
Filed: 20 Dec 16
Utility
Digital table
31 Aug 20
The disclosure concerns a dispensing system, having at least one dispense location with at least one dispensing head configured to dispense a beverage through a bottom portion of a container.
Stephen Lim, Martin Eduardo Broen
Filed: 17 May 16
Utility
Stackable pallet display
17 Aug 20
A stackable pallet display system includes a tray portion having a rectangular bottom wall, corner posts extending upward from corners of the tray portion and an interior divider panel extending upward from the tray portion.
Mike Pfeifer, William Garrett Ehlebracht, Sunitha Nair, Daniel Lee Mathews, Roberto Carlos Guerrero Kees
Filed: 6 May 19
Utility
Interactive closure device and beverage container
3 Aug 20
An interactive beverage container includes a beverage container that defines an opening which may be sealed by a closure.
Ryan Campbell, Bruno Telesca
Filed: 18 Aug 19
Utility
Systems and methods for parallel and scalable processing of telemetry data from connected dispensing machines
13 Jul 20
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for parallel and scalable processing of messages containing telemetry data at an administrator system.
George Xu Gong
Filed: 25 May 16
Utility
Cold plasma sanitation for a dispensing machine
29 Jun 20
An apparatus comprises a dispensing system and a sanitizing system.
Indrani Deo, Georgy Martsinovskiy, Mikhail Verbitsky, Dmitry Falkov
Filed: 20 Dec 18
Utility
Resealable packages for snack products
22 Jun 20
Disclosed are unique resealable packages for snacks.
Martin E. Broen, Todd Huthmaker, Chad Huebner, David Lestage
Filed: 10 Oct 17
Utility
Method and composition comprising hydrolyzed starch
22 Jun 20
A method and composition comprising hydrolyzed starch.
Gary Carder, Robert E. Chatel, Yongsoo Chung, Justin A. French, Wesley Twombly
Filed: 21 Mar 16
Utility
Multihead weigher and weighing method
22 Jun 20
A multihead weigher that includes a feeder plate for receiving a product supply that has at least one feed outlet at an inner edge of the annular feeder plate.
Clive Bernard Scott
Filed: 23 May 16
Utility
Beverage dispensing system
8 Jun 20
A method of determining a sold-out state of a beverage dispenser is provided.
Sam Karol, Robert W. Balstad, Anthony Romano, Alberto Pravato, Alessandro Roncato
Filed: 17 Dec 17
Utility
Preparation and incorporation of co-products into beverages to enhance nutrition and sensory attributes
1 Jun 20
Co-products from juice extraction, in particular for use in beverage and food products to enhance nutrition and sensory attributes of the products, are provided.
Sundar Bala, Bryan William Hitchcock, MongJan Hsieh, Rachel Lisa Jordan, Jeffrey David Mathews, Teodoro Rivera, Jin-E Shin, William B. Small, II
Filed: 6 Feb 14
Utility
Printed user interface
25 May 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: 14 Apr 16
Utility
Beverage and food production using Greek yogurt acid whey
11 May 20
A method of producing a beverage base or a component for a beverage or a food, providing Greek yogurt acid whey which has been obtained by separating the whey from Greek yogurt during a manufacturing process for the Greek yogurt; removing from the acid whey particulate material having a particle size of greater than 10 μm; filtering the whey, directly or indirectly thus obtained to remove from the whey any bacteria and germinated bacterial spores therein having a molecular mass of at least 10,000 Daltons, the filtering being through a filter having a pore size of no greater than 1 μm; and filtering the whey, directly or indirectly thus obtained to remove from the whey any enzymes therein having a molecular mass of at least 1,000 Daltons, the filtering being through a filter having a pore size of no greater than 0.1 μm.
Damian Browne, Yvonne Collins, Margaret Dohnalek, Dave McDonagh, Heidi Kleinbach-Sauter, Kyle Shadix, Siow Ying Tan
Filed: 2 Nov 16