Patents Represented by Attorney C. Brant Cook
  • Patent number: 8343625
    Abstract: Polysaccharides and/or hydroxyl polymers, more particularly, structures, especially fibers, comprising a polysaccharide and/or hydroxyl polymer and an association agent, fibrous structures comprising such structures and processes for making such structures and/or fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Stephen Wayne Heinzman
  • Patent number: 8334050
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Geometric Mean Modulus (GM Modulus) of less than 1070 g/cm as measured according to the Modulus Test Method described herein and a Geometric Mean Elongation (GM Elongation or GM Elong) of less than 15% measured according to the Elongation Test Method described herein are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Joshua Thomas Fung, Jeremy Howard Nugent, Ashley Lynn Kuntz, Katie Kristine Glass, Kathryn Christian Kien, Kevin Mitchell Wiwi
  • Patent number: 8334049
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Tensile Ratio of greater than 0.5 as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method described herein and a Geometric Mean Flexural Rigidity (GM Flexural Rigidity or GM Flex) of less than 195 mg*cm2/cm as measured according to the Flexural Rigidity Test Method described herein and/or a Geometric Mean Modulus (GM Modulus) of less than 935 g/cm and/or a Machine Direction Modulus (MD Modulus) of less than 845 g/cm, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Joshua Thomas Fung, Jeremy Howard Nugent, Ashley Lynn Kuntz, Katie Kristine Glass, Kathryn Christian Kien, Kevin Mitchell Wiwi
  • Patent number: 8273453
    Abstract: Polysaccharides and/or hydroxyl polymers, more particularly, structures, especially fibers, comprising a polysaccharide and/or hydroxyl polymer and an association agent, fibrous structures comprising such structures and processes for making such structures and/or fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Stephen Wayne Heinzman
  • Patent number: 8241738
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlan Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: 8241461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cationic polymers, such as polyaminoamide epichlorohydrin (PAE), that are derived from renewable resources and can be used to produce wet strength resins suitable for a variety of applications, such as in absorbent paper articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: John Collins Dyer
  • Patent number: 8192836
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 360 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and optionally, a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2450 g/76.2 mm and/or a Machine Direction (MD) Dry Tensile of less than 1520 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean (GM) Total Dry Tensile of less than 1180 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Patent number: 8192205
    Abstract: Demonstrative methods for sanitary tissue products, for example toilet tissue products, and more particularly, methods for demonstrating absorbency-based consumption differences between two or more toilet tissue products, and toilet tissue product packages and marketing articles that evidence absorbency-based consumption differences between toilet tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: 8178196
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Geometric Mean Elongation of greater than 15.8% as measured according to the Elongation Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch, Robert Lenord Powers, Christopher Gerald Donner
  • Patent number: 8168003
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber having starch and a surfactant, and a web employing such a fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Valerie Ann Bailey, Larry Neil Mackey, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 8147473
    Abstract: Folded fibrous structures, more particularly, folded sanitary tissue products, especially in rolled form, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Joseph Butsch, Kevin Benson McNeil, Lois Jean Forde-Kohler
  • Patent number: 8137797
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: 8129449
    Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gabmle Company
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: D652631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas August Vitucci, Naomi Ruth Nelson, Rebecca Kathleen Pagels, Jason Merrill Jones
  • Patent number: D656740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jeremy Howard Nugent
  • Patent number: D658390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nicholas August Vitucci
  • Patent number: D658391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alexander Paul Weber
  • Patent number: D665583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alexander Paul Weber
  • Patent number: D667225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alexander Paul Weber
  • Patent number: D667639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nicholas August Vitucci