Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Marianne Dressman
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Patent number: 6579840Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions or components comprising certain cyclic amine based polymers and certain anionic cellulose materials. This combination imparts improved appearance and integrity benefits to fabrics and textiles laundered in washing solutions formed from such compositions, whilst also providing improved whiteness and/or brightness maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Gabor Heltovics
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Patent number: 6551983Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent composition comprising a bleach-sensitive component and a hydrogen peroxide source, wherein the hydrogen peroxide source is present in a particulate component having an average particle size, by weight, of from 700 microns to 1100 microns, preferably from 750 microns to 1000 microns, whereby at least 80% by weight of the particulate component comprising the hydrogen peroxide source has a particle size of between 70% to 130% of the average particle size. The compositions preferably comprise a bleach activator of a specified average particle size.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Gary Welch, Alison Lesley Main, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Tiffany Alice Hensman
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Patent number: 6541437Abstract: Speckled detergent compositions with colored glassy phosphates and conventional detergent ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Lucia Mendez Mata, Fabrizio Meli
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Patent number: 6541443Abstract: A multifunctional detergent material, useful in laundry and cleaning product compositions, containing functional ingredients including a condensed phosphate material and a silicate material, and optionally other inorganic materials, such as carbonate and sulfate. The condensed phosphate material forms an amorphous phase containing polyphosphates, while the silicate material is present as crystalline particulate. The composition can be used to provide multiple functions for laundry and cleaning products in a single ingredient, including the functions of a builder, a filler, and an alkaline source.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Jose Andres Rojo
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Patent number: 6491933Abstract: The present invention relates to a substantially dry, disposable personal care article suitable for cleansing, said article comprising: a) a water insoluble substrate comprising a creped nonwoven layer; and b) a cleansing component disposed adjacent to said creped nonwoven layer, wherein said component comprises from about 10% to about 1000%, by weight of the water insoluble substrate, of a lathering surfactant and wherein the cleansing component exhibits a log [(&eegr; @ 25° C.)/(&eegr; @ 200° C.)] greater than about 0.45. Additionally, the present invention relates to a similar article that is characterized by a cleansing component that exhibits a complex viscosity measured under an oscillation stress of 1 Pa of greater than about 100 Pa·s. at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Marc Paul Lorenzi, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps
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Patent number: 6488943Abstract: The present invention relates to an antimicrobial wipe effective against Gram positive bacteria, Gram negative bacteria, fungi, yeasts, molds, and viruses comprising a porous or absorbent sheet impregnated with an antimicrobial cleansing composition, wherein the antimicrobial cleansing composition comprises from about 0.001% to about 5.0%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of an antimicrobial active; from about 0.05% to about 10%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of an anionic surfactant; from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of a proton donating agent; and from about 3% to about 99.85%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, water; wherein the composition is adjusted to a pH of from about 3.0 to about 6.0; wherein the antimicrobial cleansing composition an One-wash Immediate Germ Reduction Index of greater than about 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter William Beerse, Jeffrey Michael Morgan, Kathleen Grieshop Baier, Theresa Anne Bakken Schuette, Raymond Wei Cen
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Patent number: 6482423Abstract: The present invention relates to an antimicrobial wipe comprising a porous or absorbent sheet impregnated with an antimicrobial cleansing composition, wherein the antimicrobial cleansing composition comprises from about 0.001% to about 5.0%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of an antimicrobial active; from about 0.05% to about 10%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of an anionic surfactant; from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, of a proton donating agent; and from about 3% to about 99.85%, by weight of the antimicrobial cleansing composition, water; wherein the composition is adjusted to a pH of from about 3.0 to about 6.0; wherein the antimicrobial cleansing composition has a Gram Positive Residual Effectiveness Index of greater than about 0.5; and wherein the antimicrobial cleansing composition has a Mildness Index of less than about 0.3.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter William Beerse, Jeffrey Michael Morgan, Kathleen Grieshop Baier, Theresa Anne Bakken Schuette, Raymond Wei Cen, Mannie Lee Clapp, Raphael Warren
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Patent number: 6472355Abstract: A rinse-off liquid personal cleansing composition comprises water, from about 1% to about 60% by weight of a watersoluble surfactant, and a water-insoluble oil corresponding to the formula: wherein R1 is H or C1-C20 alkyl, R4 is C1-C20 alkyl, R2 is H or C1-C20 alkyl, and R3 is C5-C20 alkyl, n is an integer from 0 to 3, and m is an integer from 1 to 1000, and having a number average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 25,000. The personal cleansing compositions of the invention provide excellent rinse feel and are exceptionally mild to the skin.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 6464132Abstract: A carton and a die cut for such a carton comprise two parallel lines of weakness corresponding to two edges of a side of the carton. This allows the side to be fully opened by tearing open the lines of weakness, thus giving access along the full width of the opened side. The cartons provide maximized and facilitated access to the contents of the carton.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jacky Pierre Duquet, José Arnau-Munoz, Francis Wanwanscappel
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Patent number: 6451333Abstract: The present invention relates to a rinse-off antimicrobial cleansing composition comprising from about 0.1% to about 5.0%, by weight of the cleansing composition, of an antimicrobial active; from about 9% to about 14%, by weight of the cleansing composition, of an anionic surfactant, wherein at least about 67% of the anionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of Class A surfactants, Class C surfactants, and mixtures thereof, wherein the ratio of Class A surfactant to Class C is from about 4:1 to about 1.5:1, and wherein the total anionic surfactant comprises less than about 50% of the ammonium counter cation salt; from about 4% to about 8%, by weight of the cleansing composition, of a proton donating agent having a Biological Activity Index, Z, of greater than about 0.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter William Beerse, Jeffrey Michael Morgan, Kathleen Grieshop Baier, Robert Gregory Bartolo, Theresa Anne Bakken Schuette
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Patent number: 6444634Abstract: Granular detergent compositions and in particular low density, phosphate containing detergent compositions comprise a specific bleaching system containing hydrophobic peracid bleach and hydrophilic peracid bleach and a peroxide source. These detergent compositions have specific low levels of available oxygen from hydrophobic aid hydrophilic peroxyacid bleach, specific ratios of available oxygen from the hydrophobic peracid bleach to the hydrophilic peracid bleach and specific ratios of available oxygen of the peroxide source to the available oxygen of the peracids. These specific mixed bleach systems are useful for sanitization or reduction of bacterial activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Susan Judith Mason, Ludivine Pascale Grippay, Nour-Eddine Guedira, Donald Ray Brown, Michelle Frances Mellea
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Patent number: 6444808Abstract: Improved synthesis of a macropolycycle, more particularly, of a cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycle.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: George Douglas Hiler, II, Christopher Mark Perkins
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Patent number: 6444629Abstract: A rinse-off liquid personal cleansing composition comprising surfactant and water wherein the composition comprises less than 8% of a first surfactant selected from a crystallizing anionic surfactant and greater than 3% of a second surfactant selected from non-crystalizing anionic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants, nonionic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the composition has a Mean Rinse Feel Value of 3.5 or less as measured by the Rinse Feel Panel Test. The personal cleansing compositions of the invention provide excellent rinse feels and skin mildness.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Russell Philip Elliott, Nicola Jacqueline Phipps, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer
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Patent number: 6440926Abstract: The present invention discloses dry effervescent granules comprising an acid, carbonate source and optionally a binder, wherein said acid, carbonate source and optionally binder are in close physical proximity. The invention also discloses granular compositions, containing effervescence material comprising an acid and a carbonate source, which has an effervescence index (EI) of at least 50. The granular compositions may be obtainable by incorporating said pre-formed dry effervescent granules into said granular compositions, especially detergent compositions. Improved effervescence is obtained when diluting these granular detergent compositions with water to obtain a washing/soaking liquor, resulting thereby in improved dissolution/dispensing characteristic and improved stain removal performance on soiled fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Luca Spadoni, Roberto Morelli, Sylvestre Canceil, Richard Timothy Hartshorn
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Patent number: 6436885Abstract: Disclosed are antimicrobial cleansing compositions that have a pH of from about 2.0 to about 5.5 and comprise an antimicrobial agent, an amphoteric sulfactant, and 2-pyrrolidone-5 carboxylic acid as a proton donating agent. Also disclosed are corresponding articles of manufacture and methods of cleansing the skin using the described compositions. The compositions are mild to the skin and provide improved antimicrobial benefits to the skin.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kimberly Ann Biedermann, Jeffrey Michael Morgan, Karl Shiqing Wei, Mark Richard Sine, Cheyne P. Thomas, David Edmund Tarantino, Christopher Irwin, Christopher Dean Putman, Peter William Beerse
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Patent number: 6429185Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a powder from a packaged tablet, the package comprising plastic materials, whereby the process is characterised in that it comprises a first step of submitting the packaged tablet to mechanical degradation with first mechanical degradation means, a second step of sifting with first sifting means to obtain an intermediate material, a third step of submitting the intermediate material to mechanical degradation with second mechanical degradation means, and a fourth step of sifting with second sifting means to obtain the powder, whereby the powder obtained comprises less than 0.05% per weight of plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Inventors: Maria del Mar Ollero Novo, Paul Irma Albertus Van Dijk, Jose Luis Vega
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Patent number: 6423329Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods of sanitizing and moisturizing skin surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mark Richard Sine, Karl Shiqing Wei, David Andrew Jakubovic, Cheyne P. Thomas, Michael Thomas Dodd, Christopher Dean Putman
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Patent number: 6410017Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions comprising a water insoluble substrate, a plurality of active proteins, and a binding means, comprising a polymeric tether, permanently attaching each of the enzymes to the substrate wherein the personal care composition comprises from about 0.01 &mgr;g/cm2 to about 1000 &mgr;g/cm2 of the enzyme on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David John Weisgerber, Andrew Campbell Allcock
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Patent number: 6391839Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid or salts thereof, an alkali metal percarbonate bleach and a crystalline layered sodium silicate of formula LMSixO2xH.yH2O wherein L is an alkali metal, and M is sodium or hydrogen, x is a number from 1.9 to 4 and y is a number from 0 to 20 are provided. The compositions also preferably comprise additional non-phosphate detergent builder compounds.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1995Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Michael Crombie Addison, Michael Alan J. Moss
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Patent number: 6387873Abstract: This invention relates to detergent compositions having significantly improved calcium sequestration capacity as well as superior builder capacity in comparison to conventional aluminosilicate builder materials, while not redepositing on fabrics. More particularly, this invention relates to detergent compositions comprising microclusters of submicron crystallites of an aluminosilicate ion exchange material.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2001Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John David Carter, Eugene Joseph Pancheri, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh