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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8101217 | Method for ethanol production and extraction A method includes operating an apparatus having a mash circulating and recirculating system with pump and fermentation tank, an atmosphere circulating and recirculating system with blower for recirculating atmosphere between the tank and an ethanol-removal station, ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7214402 | Method and apparatus for distributed production of beer The present invention calls for the establishment of a centralized facility for the production of unfermented, undiluted, and unprocessed hopped wort using a single source of water. The hopped wort is then cooled and transported to a plurality of remote fermentation... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7048940 | Alpha-pyrone compositions for controlling craving and as a substitute for alcohol Administered anticraving compositions are disclosed for treating patients addicted to alcohol comprising an effective amount of at least one alpha-pyrone compound formulated into a physiologically acceptable carrier medium. Additionally, a method of oral administrat... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6569341 | Osmotic distillation process A method of raising the concentration of a liquid mixture utilizes osmotic distillation to transfer a volatile liquid component from the mixture in contact with one side of a nonporous, preferably high free volume, gas permeable membrane to a strip soluti... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6419829 | Membrane process for making enhanced flavor fluids A process using a hydrophobic membrane separation process for making an enhanced flavor fluid, particularly a low-alcohol brew, having improved flavor is disclosed.... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6284518 | Synthetic media for the production of malolactic starter cultures This invention relates to the production of Leuconostoc oenos or Lactobacillus spp., preferably Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus hilgardii, Lactobacillus brevis or Lactobacillus casei biomass in novel synthetic media (which are free of fruit or vege... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6162360 | Membrane process for making enhanced flavor fluids A process using a hydrophobic membrane separation process for making an enhanced flavor fluid, particularly a low-alcohol brew, having improved flavor is disclosed.... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6033690 | Process for pre-conditioning brewer's wort with beer fermentation products and production of a beer therefrom A process is disclosed for managing or controlling fermentation product profiles in a parallel pair of beer product streams in which a brewer's wort is fermented to produce a beer having fermentation products therein. The beer is passed along a first side... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5972394 | Method of preparing a fermented soybean milk and fermented soybean milk A method of preparing a fermented soybean milk comprising subjecting a soybean milk to fermentations with yeast and lactic acid bacteria, and subjecting the resulting fermented soybean milk to a deactivation treatment to deactivate the yeast and bacteria ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5824223 | Methods and apparatus for osmotic distillation Methods and apparatus are provided for osmotic distillation employing dehydrating aqueous solutions of potassium salts of phosphoric acid, pyrophosphoric acid, acetate, and blends thereof. Methods are also provided for the simultaneous osmotic distillatio... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5817359 | Methods for dealcoholization employing perstration The present invention provides methods and for the dealcoholization of alcohol containing solutions, especially fermented beverages. In preferred embodiments the methods employ a novel controlled-strip evaporative perstraction technique following initial ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5762991 | Continous process of producing beer A continuous process of producing beer is described. Starch-containing raw materials are disintegrated and are optionally processed to form malt, a wort is produced from the disintegrated and optionally malted raw materials, and the wort is subjected to a... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5612072 | Process for the production of non-alcoholic or low alcohol malt beverage The invention relates to a process for the production of substantially non-alcoholic beer by a continuous yeast treatment at a low temperature. In the process, wort which has been clarified and possibly treated by evaporating and/or with an adsorbing agen... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5571703 | Municipal solid waste processing facility and commercial ethanol production process A method of processing waste is disclosed wherein the municipal solid waste is segregated and processed to recover reusable rubber, metal, plastic, glass and the remaining organic portion of the waste stream is used to make ethanol and other chemicals. On... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5510125 | Process for selective removal of sugar from beverages To remove selectively particularly sugar from nonalcoholic or alcoholic beverages, first the sugar is either carried away in the permeate in a membrane separation unit (2) by suitable choice of membrane (4) or is retained in the retentate. Afterward, the ... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5460837 | Preparation and use of a malolactic ferment biomass A malolactic ferment is produced from at least one malolactic bacterium strain which is cultured in a culture medium containing an assimilable nitrogen source, malic acid and alcohol. The ferment biomass is separated from the culture medium. The biomass m... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5439699 | Method for preparing colorless clear beer A method is disclosed of preparing a colorless, clear beer by a method including ultrafiltration and the addition of dextrins, bittering agents and a foam enhancer. Methods of preparing improved nonalcoholic malt beverages and making natural beer foaming ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5384135 | Process for the manufacture of an alcohol-free beer having the organoleptic properties of a lager type pale beer A process for the manufacture of an alcohol-free pale beer (AFB) whose organoleptic properties are those of a lager beer, comprising the manufacture of a lager type alcoholic pale beer from pale malts containing 20 to 30% of brown malts, mashed to obtain ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5160044 | Process for separating ethanol from aqueous solution The present invention provides a process for separating ethanol from an aqueous solution by supercritical or near supercritical extraction in combination with reverse osmosis, which includes contacting an ethanol containing aqueous solution with one side ... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5093141 | Product and process for production of alcohol-free wines or alcohol reduced wines and brandy The invention relates to a process for the production of alcohol-free wine, i.e. wine containing less than 1% by volume of alcohol, and of wines containing reduced concentrations i.e. 1 to 7% by volume of alcohol with the simultaneous production of brandy... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5079011 | Method using immobilized yeast to produce ethanol and alcoholic beverages According to the invention, yeast cells are immobilized on a substantially noncompressible carrier having anion exchange properties. The immobilized yeast can then be used to ferment a sugar-containing substrate. The noncompressibility enables the system ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077061 | Method of making alcohol-free or nearly alcohol-free beer A method of producing an alcohol-free or low alcohol beer comprising thermally breaking malt draff to obtain a malt draff mash from a substrate selected from the group consisting of a full- or a high-alcohol content beer brewing base or a protein fraction... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5075123 | Process and apparatus for removing alcohol from beverages A process and apparatus for removing alcohol from beverages includes removing alcohol from the beverage to a dialysate by dialysis in a dialysis chamber, and then removing the alcohol from the dialysate by vacuum in a vacuum stripping column, wherein the ... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5013447 | Process of treating alcoholic beverages by vapor-arbitrated pervaporation The method and apparatus of the present invention has general applicability to the manipulation of the concentration, by partial depletion or enrichment, of one or more volatile components in a given liquid while leaving the other volatile components in t... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4976974 | Grape juice concentrate and drink In this invention, both a grape juice concentrate and a grape juice drink are produced by first preparing the raw material for a year's production during vintage, transferring grape juice so produced to a vacuum concentrating column before it ferments, he... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4971807 | Process for the production of beer with a low alcohol content A process for the production of beer with a low alcohol content is described. The process comprises preparing a wort by boiling and adding ascorbic acid to such wort prior, during, or after boiling, so long as the wort remains hot. The process can be empl... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4970082 | Process for preparing a nonalcoholic (less the 0.5 volume percent alcohol) malt beverage Malt beverages having less than 0.5% v/v alcohol content are made by combining wort with a thick yeast slurry and fermenting sugars in the wort at 38° F. to 45° F. for 0.5 to 10 hours. The wort has a high extract content, at least 14% by weight. The yea... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4960705 | Process for the filtration of thickened corn gluten The filtration of thickened gluten which is obtained as by-product during the production of corn starch can be improved by the reaction of an amylase- and proteinase-activity-free xylanase, hemicellulase and/or glucanase and leads to more rapid draining a... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4952503 | Process for the production of ethanol In the production of ethanol by continuous fermentation in a fermentor (4) with continuous stillage recirculation (19, 20) to the fermentor, the fermentation liquid (6) continuously withdrawn from the fermentor is first sieved in a straining step (7) for ... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4943436 | Beer production The invention relates to beer production and intermediate products for use therein. In particular, the present invention relates to a process for the production of a beer wherein, prior to fermentation, the wort is subjected to a separating technique to p... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4942045 | Grape juice concentrate In this invention, a grape juice concentrate is produced by crushing grapes to extract grape juice (10, 11), subjecting the grape juice to a first stage vacuum concentration (19) before it ferments by heating the grape juice and subjecting it to a low pre... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4902518 | Low alcohol wine A method for the production of low alcohol wine comprising separating a fruit juice into a high sugar fraction and a low sugar fraction, stripping volatile components, such as high-boiling point esters, from the fruit juice or from the high sugar fraction... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4882177 | Method for the production of alcohol-free beer The object of the invention is to provide a method for the production of low-alcohol or alcohol-free beer. In said method, a gas is lead through alcoholic beer in order to desorb the alcohol, the involved loss of taste in the beer being compensated for by... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4790993 | Process for the production of alcohol-free, yeast white beer Disclosed is an alcohol-free yeast white beer and a process for its production wherein the yeast is physically separated from an alcohol containing yeast white beer free of fermentable substances. The beer is then subjected to a vacuum distillation until ... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4788066 | Preparation of low alcohol beer Beer of low alcohol content is produced by preparing an all-malt brew using a high-temperature-tolerant cellulase. Mashing is conducted at a temperature of approximately 78°-80° C. After mashing, the wort is separated from the mash and fermented with ye... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4775538 | Preparation of alcohol free wine An alcohol free wine beverage is produced by diluting a table wine with demineralized water and feeding the diluted wine to a centrifugal film evaporator where alcohol is stripped from the wine to produce an alcohol free wine base. The wine base is then m... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4681767 | Method for decreasing the alcohol content of alcohol-containing beverages, particularly wine and sparkling wine In a method for decreasing the alcohol content of alcohol-containing beverages, particularly wine or sparkling wine, according to the reverse osmosis process, extract substances are added to the dealcoholized beverage. In order to avoid addition of foreig... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4664918 | Process for reducing alcohol in fermented beverages by means of dialysis A dialysis process, wherein a fermented beverage obtained by a customary process is being conducted along one side of the dialysis membrane, with a suitable dialysate fluid containing extract substances (alcohol-free fruit beverage and a fermented beverag... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4661355 | Process for the preparation of alcohol-free drinks with a yeast aroma To prepare alcohol-free drinks with a yeast aroma, such as alcohol-free beer, an aqueous starting liquid containing nutrients and/or flavor substances is used. The starting liquid can be prepared by mixing a nutrient and/or flavor substance concentrate wi... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4626437 | Method for the preparation of alcohol-free wine There is disclosed a method for preparing an alcohol-free wine product. A completely fermented wine is evaporated to produce a dealcholized wine concentrate and a vapor condensate containing alcohol and aromatic substances. The condensate is separated int... | 12/02/1986 |
