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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7338681 | Process to prepare a premium formulated fried egg The present invention relates to the formulation and process for preparation of a fried egg product which may be frozen for future heating within a microwave or other oven for consumption by an individual. Various ingredients are added and mixed to each of the liqui... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7288279 | Formulated fried egg product The present invention relates to the formulation and process for preparation of a fried egg product which may be frozen for future heating within a microwave or other oven for consumption by an individual. Various ingredients are added and mixed to each of the liqui... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7256049 | Devices and methods for separating phospholipids from biological samples Device and methods for the removal of phospholipids from biological samples are disclosed and described. Removal of phospholipids may be desirable for the analysis of the phospholipids themselves, or to prevent the phospholipids from conflicting with and effectively... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7241469 | Formulation and process to prepare a pre-formed filing unit The present process relates to a formulation for a food product and preparation of a pre-formed filling unit for the provision of a consumable food product containing eggs, which may be refrigerated and/or frozen for future heating within a microwave oven for consum... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7226771 | Phospholipases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them The invention provides novel polypeptides having phospholipase activity, including, e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity, nucleic acids encoding them and antibodies that bind to them. Industrial methods, e... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7189544 | Enzymatic modification of lecithin The disclosure pertains to enzymatic modification of lecithin and to hydrolyzed lecithin products obtained by such modification. One particular implementation provides methods for producing a hydrolyzed lecithin product containing hydrolyzed phospholipids, monoglyce... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7122216 | Vegetable oil extraction methods This invention relates to methods for treating oil bearing vegetable material, especially oilseeds. Methods of the invention provide for the isolation of certain components of oil bearing vegetable material, including isoflavones, vegetable oil, and a phosphatide fr... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6908637 | Process for debittering peanut hearts The present invention involves methods for preparing a processed peanut product containing high levels of peanut hearts material, with the peanut heart material being substantially stripped of bitter taste so as to provide debittered peanut hearts of comparable tast... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6844458 | Vegetable oil refining The present invention relates to improved methods for refining vegetable oils. Vegetable oil is combined with organic acid and subjected to high shear to finely disperse the acid solution in the oil. The resulting acid-and-oil mixture is mixed at low shear for a tim... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6610870 | Linseed oil and method for preparation thereof Processed linseed oil essentially consisting of linolenic, linolic and oleic acids, mainly in the form of triglycerides, its content of free tocoferol being less than about 100 ppm; and a process for the manufacture of linseed oil comprising the following... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6376689 | Removal of gum and chlorophyll-type compounds from vegetable oils A single-step acid degumming/decolorizing process removes chlorophyll-type compounds from vegetable oils from seeds, especially frost damaged seeds which have large amounts of chlorophyll-type compounds. A mixture of aqueous sulfuric and phosphoric acids ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6303803 | Removal of sterols from fats and oils Disclosed is a method for reducing the sterol, for example cholesterol, content of sterol-containing substances such as fats and oils. The method provides an efficient and cost effective process based on the affinity of cholesterol and other sterols for a... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6284904 | Purification of organic acids using anion exchange chromatography Disclosed is a cost-effective method for purifying and acidifying carboxylic acids, including organic acids and amino acids. The method involves removing impurities by allowing the anionic form of the carboxylic acid to bind to an anion exchange column an... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6172248 | Methods for refining vegetable oils and byproducts thereof The present invention relates to improved methods for refining vegetable oils and byproducts thereof. This invention also relates to an improved process for deodorizing lecithin. The invention additionally relates to deodorized lecithin and deodorized veg... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6015915 | Process for degumming a fatty substance and fatty substance thus obtained Process for degumming a fatty substance such as a crude or delecithinated, animal or vegetable oil or fat, including bringing this fatty substance into contact with an aqueous solution of a complexing agent and of a detergent and/or emulsifier making it p... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5981453 | Process for the preparation of tenside mixtures Process for the preparation of a tenside mixture, wherein a starting mixture containing an alkali metal salt of an alkyl sulfonic acid is treated with a concentrated sulfuric acid solution in an amount in excess of the amount needed for converting the sal... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5880300 | Phospholipid-based removal of sterols from fats and oils Disclosed is a method for reducing the sterol, for example cholesterol, content of sterol-containing substances such as fats and oils. The method provides an efficient and cost effective process based on the affinity of cholesterol and other sterols for p... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5874643 | Hypophosphorous acid to stabilize fatty alcohols Fatty alcohol containing admixed therewith a small amount on the order of up to 1.0 wt. % of hypophosphorous acid, exhibits markedly reduced oxidation and oxidation-related deterioration such as discoloration and other side effects. This discovery is part... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5556970 | Lanolin fatty acids, a method for their fractionation, cosmetics and drugs for external use The invention provides a process comprising treating a lanolin fatty acid with boric acid to convert hydroxy fatty acids therein to boric acid esters, subjecting the reaction mixture to vacuum distillation to fractionate the boric acid esters of hydroxy f... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5449797 | Process for the removal of soap from glyceride oils and/or wax esters using an amorphous adsorbent The invention improves on the amorphous adsorbent-based processes by overcoming the soap leaching problem without using filtration before vacuum bleaching. For fatty materials containing only minor amounts of phospholipid and trace metal impurities, simpl... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5391786 | Process for the production of light-colored washing-active -sulfofatty acid lower alkyl ester salts Light-colored ester sulfonates can be obtained by sulfonation of fatty acid lower alkyl esters and subsequent working up providing fatty acid esters having a low content of oxo compounds and unsaturated compounds are used in the sulfonation stage.... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5315021 | Process for removing chlorophyll color impurities from vegetable oils A process for removing chlorophyll color impurities from vegetable oils, the process comprises: i) dispersing a source of phosphoric acid in vegetable oil to form a mixture having a moisture content of less than 0.1% by weight which mixture is maintained ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5278325 | Vegetable oil extraction process A vegetable oil process and assembly is disclosed for extracting oil from an oil bearing material such as soybean, corn and the like. The process comprises adding at least one reagent to the oil bearing material to form a slurry mixture. The slurry is hea... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5239097 | Process for refining soap-containing crude polyol fatty-acid polyester reaction products The present invention pertains to a process for refining soap-containing crude polyol fatty-acid polyester reaction product, comprising the step of contacting the crude reaction product with an aqueous acid solution to substantially convert the soap into ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5218138 | Stereoselective reduction of 3-hydroxyket-1-ones to 1,3-syn-dihydroxylated compounds This invention is directed to a method for stereoselectively preparing a syn-dihydroxylated compound comprising reacting a 3-hydroxyket-1-one and a sterically hindered dialkylated borane to form a complex at about -50° C. to about 0° C., and reducing th... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5138075 | Extractive separation method The present invention provides an extractive separation method in which a solute contained in a medium can be efficiently extracted and separated with a lower consumption of energy under the remarkably gentle operating conditions. This method consists in ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5114624 | Process for the production and recovery of ene reaction products In a process for the preparation of higher alkyl acrylic acid esters which comprises reacting one or more C10+ olefins with one or more alkyl acrylic acid esters in the presence of a halogen containing catalyst, the invention is the improvemen... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5102582 | Process for separating fatty acids and triglycerides The separation of free fatty acids from triglycerides and/or diglycerides is performed by an adsorptive chromatographic process in liquid phase with a crystalline aluminophosphate, e.g., AIPO4 -5, AIPO4 -11 or AIPO4 -54, a... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5034509 | Method for improving the color and the stability of the color of carboxylic acid or a mixture of the same The invention relates to a method for improving the color and the stability of the color of carboxylic acid or a mixture of the same by treating the carboxylic acid or its mixture with a hydride-yielding substance at an elevated temperature and by distill... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4981620 | In-line dewaxing of edible vegetable oils A method for the combined in-line bleaching and dewaxing of vegetable oils which includes the steps of bleaching the vegetable oil with a sufficient amount of bleaching clay and filter aid at a temperature of about 80°-130° C. for about 15-60 minutes, f... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4966734 | Deodorization of fatty ester mixtures Undesirable odors are removed from fatty ester mixtures which, in addition to other components, contain the esters of highly unsaturated fatty acids, in particular of highly unsaturated 3-fatty acids, such as eicosapentaenoic acid or docosahexaenoic acid,... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4816189 | Close-coupled process for improving the stability of soybean oil A close-coupled method of treating unrefined, unbleached soybean oil to produce a stable edible frying oil. The close-coupled process involves performing a series of steps to refine and bleach unrefined, unbleached soybean oil in a continuous sequence wit... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4816159 | Supercritical fluid chromatography packing material Disclosed is a method of separating organic or organometallic materials under supercritical fluid conditions, the method comprising the steps of providing a bed of packing material selected from a metal oxide/hydroxide support material having phosphorous-... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4781864 | Process for the removal of chlorophyll, color bodies and phospholipids from glyceride oils using acid-treated silica adsorbents Phospholipids and/or chlorophyll and other color bodies are removed from glyderide oil by contacting the oil with an acid-treated amorphous silica adsorbent comprising a high surface area amorphous silica on which is supported an acid having a pKa | 11/01/1988 |
| 4609500 | Refining of oil and product thereof The present invention provides a refined edible oil which has good oxidative, flavor and cold-test stabilities, and which will retain such characteristics in storage without the necessity for stabilizing additives. In addition, the present invention provi... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4601856 | Method of purifying oleic acid A method of producing a highly purified oleic acid is disclosed, which comprises the steps of: (a) separating and removing the resulting precipitated crystal after the cooling of a solution of oleic acid containing fatty acid mixture and urea in an organi... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4584141 | Process relating to triglyceride oils The present process for removing impurities from a triglyceride oil includes admixing a hydrolyzed phosphatide and water with the oil, separating the oil into an oil portion and a sludge portion and separating the sludge portion into an aqueous phase and ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4569796 | Process for refining triglyceride oils Process for refining a triglyceride oil comprising bringing the oil into contact with at least an amount of aqueous alkali solution equal to the stoichiometric amount required to neutralize the oil, forming a soapstock and separating said soapstock and oi... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4349451 | Fryer oil treatment composition and method A composition comprising water, food compatible acid and porous rhyolite carrier, and a method of treating used fryer cooking oil are disclosed.... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4325883 | Process for bleaching naturally-occurring oils and fats A process for bleaching an oil or fat is disclosed wherein a polar bleaching agent is employed in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst.... | 04/20/1982 |
