Patents Represented by Attorney Kathleen Y. Carter
  • Patent number: 8343126
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include disposable wearable absorbent articles with anchoring systems. In an embodiment, a disposable wearable absorbent article includes an absorbent core and an anchoring system configured to anchor the absorbent core to a wearer, wherein the anchoring system includes a circumferential anchoring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Worthington Lodge, Fred Naval Desai, Donald Carroll Roe, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Frederick Michael Langdon, Luke Robinson Magee, Gary Dean Lavon
  • Patent number: 8333748
    Abstract: An outer cover for a disposable absorbent article including waist regions elastically stretchable in the cross machine direction and activated in the cross machine direction, activated leg cuff regions elastically stretchable in one or more directions other than the cross machine direction, and an inelastic crotch region having a nonwoven crotch patch for providing the outer cover with suitable tensile strength, opacity, and poke-through properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fred Naval Desai, Khalid Qureshi, Donald Carroll Roe
  • Patent number: 8323258
    Abstract: A quiet fastening system that includes a silicone-based adhesive. The silicone-based adhesive is applied to an engaging member or receiving member of the fastening system. The engaging member and receiving member are releasably joined to engage the quiet fastening system. When disengaged, the quiet fastening system exhibits a noise level of less than 15 dB. The quiet fastening system also exhibits desirable Shear Hang Time and Peel Force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Mark William Hamersky, Kathleen Marie Lawson, George Christopher Dobrin
  • Patent number: 8287999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent structure suitable in, or being an adult or infant diaper or feminine hygiene article, comprising a water-absorbing material comprising water-absorbing particles that comprise a film coating, comprising an elastic film-forming polymer and an antioxidant. The invention also relates to an absorbent structure comprising a water absorbent material obtainable by a process of: a) spray-coating water-absorbing polymeric particles with an elastic film-forming polymer in a fluidized bed reactor at a temperature in the range from 0° C. to 150° C. and b) heat-treatment of the coated polymeric particles at a temperature above 50° C., wherein in step a) and/or b) an antioxidant is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Jean-Philippe Marie Autran, Ulrich Riegel, Thomas Daniel, Stefan Bruhns, Mark Elliott, Karl Haeberle
  • Patent number: 8235957
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a backsheet and a sublayer. The sublayer including at least a first acquisition layer and a second acquisition layer. The sublayer includes one or more areas with a plurality of combined holes. The combined holes are formed by holes extending through the first acquisition layer and holes in or extending through the second acquisition layer, or by holes in or extending through the second acquisition layer and indentations in the first acquisition layer. The combined holes have an average smallest dimension of at least 2 mm, and the surface areas of the holes through the first layer, or of the indentations in the first layer, are less than the corresponding surface areas of the holes in or through the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ekatarina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko, Monika Imgard Johanning, Ralf Geilich
  • Patent number: 7923597
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article having a durable hydrophilic substantially liquid pervious core wrap surrounding a storage layer. The core wrap has a hydrophilicity boosting composition coated on a core wrap substrate. The hydrophilicity boosting composition includes a hydrophilicity boosting amount nanoparticles having a particle size of from about 1 nanometer to about 750 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko, John David Carter, Ronald Dean Cramer, Mattias Schmidt, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh
  • Patent number: 7834066
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a denture adhesive article comprising: a) a safe and effective adhesive amount of a water soluble denture adhesive component; b) a safe and effective amount of a component selected from the group consisting of a water soluble plasticizer, a water soluble carrier, and mixtures thereof; wherein the article is bioerodible; and wherein the article has dry tack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jayanth Rajaiah, Elizabeth Anne Wilder, Mark William Hamersky, Steven Daryl Smith, Douglas Craig Scott
  • Patent number: D646180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Craig Martin Wilkinson, Scott Edward Smith, Luisa Navarro Cerda