A23C 2210/20
Treatment using membranes, including sterile filtration
A23C2210/20 (Treatment using membranes, including sterile filtration) appears on 112 US grants and 192 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23C- Granted patents
- 112
- Published applications
- 192
- Assignees
- 97
- Inventors
- 433
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A23C 2210/206Membrane filtration of a permeate obtained by ultrafiltration, nanofiltration or microfiltrationIndexing code45
- A23C 2210/208Removal of bacteria by membrane filtrationIndexing code42
- A23C 2210/202Treatment of milk with a membrane before or after fermentation of theIndexing code26
- A23C 2210/204Use of a membrane during fermentation of milkIndexing code2
Recent patents
- Non-dairy creamer delivery system15 Sep 2026US 12,733,654 B2WhiteWave Services, Inc.
- Demineralised lactose concentrate21 Apr 2026US 12,604,914 B2N. V. Nutricia
- Product and method of producing dairy products comprising dairy-derived emulsifying salts17 Mar 2026US 12,575,582 B2Land O' Lakes, Inc.
- System and process for harvesting substances from milk8 Jul 2025US 12,349,691 B1Creative Edge Design Group, Ltd.
- System for removing water from human breast milk8 Jul 2025US 12,349,692 B2Mother's Milk is Best, Inc.
- Concentrated milk protein preparations8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305634 A150G Inc.
- A Milk Product Comprising Milk Fat Globule Membranes And A Method For Manufacturing Thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293922 A1Valio Ltd.
- Biomanufacturing of Isolated and Sterilized Kefir Whey Bioactive Metabolites1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293925 A1
- Process for making a cheese24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283178 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Highly stable whippable compositions comprising beta-casein27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248163 A1Rich Products Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and a process for membrane filtration of a dispersion67US 5,685,990 AMD Foods amba · 1997
- Method of preparing a solution of lactic or colostric immunoglobulins or both and use thereof64US 4,644,056 ABiotest Pharma GmbH · 1987
- Method for producing milk with a lowered bacterial content52US 4,876,100 AAlfa-Laval Food & Dairy Engineering AB · 1989
- Product and process of making sterile milk through dynamic microfiltration48US 5,256,437 APall Corporation · 1993
- Shear separation method and system46US 6,478,969 B2Pall Corporation · 2002