Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Kim William Zerby
  • Patent number: 8148315
    Abstract: A method for uniform deposition of fabric care actives to a fabric article in a non-aqueous solvent based fabric treatment process; and compositions capable of uniformly depositing the fabric care actives on the fabric article being treated to achieve maximum benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keith Homer Baker, Julie Ann O'Neil, Victor Manuel Arredondo, Robb Richard Gardner, Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Mark Robert Sivik, Jeffrey Jon Hopkins, William Michael Scheper
  • Patent number: 7923000
    Abstract: Novel methods of determining efficacy of a treatment of inflammatory diseases of the bowel in mammals are provided. The methods are of use in screening and determining the efficacy of treatments of inflammatory diseases of the bowel, and for determining the efficacy response of individual sufferers of inflammatory diseases of the bowel to a given regime. Kits for carrying out the method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ker-Sang Chen, John Kevin Collins, Barry Pius Kiely, Fangyi Luo, Liam Diarmuid O'Mahony, Ross Peter Phillipson, Fergus Shanahan
  • Patent number: 7686892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Robert Sivik, Neil Joseph Lant, James Robert Lickiss
  • Patent number: 7527880
    Abstract: A water-soluble substrate, and more particularly a water-soluble substrate that improves resistance to dissolution at neutral pH, and methods of making the same are disclosed. Articles, such as pouches, made from the water-soluble substrate, are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Vincenzo Catalfamo
  • Patent number: 7517847
    Abstract: Bleaching product in the form of a coated substrate comprising a water-soluble film and a coating comprising a bleaching agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Vincenzo Catalfamo, Frank William Denome, Dennis Allen Beckholt, Yousef Georges Aouad, James Michael Archbold
  • Patent number: 7345016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising photosenitizer that can be used to provide lipophilic fluids with bleaching capabilities, lipophilic fluid cleaning compositions having bleaching capabilities and processes of making and using same. Such compositions provide the cleaning benefits of typical lipophilic solvents and additional cleaning benefits that include bleaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan David Willey, Brian Jeffreys, Anthony Harriman, Vladimir Garstein, William Michael Scheper
  • Patent number: 7335630
    Abstract: The invention is directed to aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions for cleaning and imparting fabric care benefits to fabrics laundered therewith. Such compositions comprise (A) at least one detersive surfactant; (B) droplets of a silicone blend comprising a nitrogen-containing amino or ammonium functionalized polysiloxane and a nitrogen-free non-functionalized polysiloxane; and (C) at least one additional non-silicone laundry adjunct selected from detersive enzymes, dye transfer inhibiting agents, optical brighteners, suds suppressors and combinations thereof. The functionalized polysiloxane component of the silicone blend has a relatively low, i.e., less than 30 mol %, content of reactive/curable groups, a nitrogen content which ranges from 0.05% to 0.30% by weight and a viscosity which ranges from 0.00002 m2/s to 0.2 m2/s. The nitrogen-free non-functionalized polysiloxane material ranges in viscosity from 0.01 m2/sec to 2.0 m2/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Patrick Firmin August Delplancke, Jean-Pol Boutique, Stefano Scialla, Connie Lynn Sheets, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett St Laurent, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte
  • Patent number: 7323014
    Abstract: A fabric cleaning system, especially a system for use in the consumer's home, utilizing down the drain detergent composition for a non-aqueous, lipophilic fluid based washing process and automatic laundry machines useful for this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Christopher Deak, William Michael Scheper, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerald France, Eddy Vos, Veerle Maria Nathalie Lootvoet, Arseni Valervich Radomyselski, John Christian Haught
  • Patent number: 7320184
    Abstract: Systems and methods useful for treating a fabric article with a composition comprising polyol-based fabric care materials and a dispersing medium. The dispersing medium is a liquid at room temperature and has a flash point of greater than about 65° C. Specifically, the composition may be dispensed to treat fabric articles in an appliance during the fabric article drying process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Shulin Larry Zhang, Trace Wendell de Guzman Trajano, Kofi Ofosu-Asante, Joseph Dean Heatherly, Freddy Arthur Barnabas, Jamie Marie Childers, Cynthia Maria Bedell, Dean Larry DuVal, Joia Kirin Spooner-Wyman
  • Patent number: 7318843
    Abstract: Compositions for treating fabric articles comprising novel detersive surfactants that provide improved cleaning performance (e.g, removal of laundry soils) in dry cleaning applications. Method for using the compositions in a dry cleaning application is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Jeffrey Scott Dupont, Victor Manuel Arredondo, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Robb Richard Gardner, William Michael Scheper, John Christian Haught, Jeffrey John Scheibel
  • Patent number: 7319085
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods to treat fabrics with lipophilic fluid, a polar phase and bleach system. The present invention is also directed to compositions containing lipophilic fluid, a polar phase and a bleach system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: The PRocter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Cynthia Marie Stark, Michael Eugene Burns, John Christian Haught, William Michael Scheper
  • Patent number: D607331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Peter Booth, Corinne Elizabeth Elstow, John David Lamb, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert
  • Patent number: D618096
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Stephen Eadicicco, Beth Waggoner Russell
  • Patent number: D644036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michel Alexandre Brousset Sangalli, Jessica Anne Drueding, Martin Lee Erbes, David Gene Everson, Thomas Milton Fairhurst
  • Patent number: D649394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Oliver Grabes, Phong Duy Vu, Sven Wuttig
  • Patent number: D651041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christine Bachmann, Oliver Grabes, Rory McGarry, Phong Duy Vu, Benjamin John Wilson, Sven Wuttig
  • Patent number: D662765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Grabes, Christine Hielscher, Rory McGarry, Phong Duy Vu, Benjamin John Wilson, Sven Wuttig
  • Patent number: D663567
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Littmann, Markus Orthey
  • Patent number: D665947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Christine Bachmann, Phong Duy Vu
  • Patent number: D668911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Christine Bachmann, Oliver Grabes, Rory McGarry, Phong Duy Vu, Benjamin John Wilson, Sven Wuttig