Patents Assigned to Wella Operations US, LLC
  • Patent number: 11896692
    Abstract: A beauty care product comprising a sealable plastic container, a sealing means and a beauty care component is provided, wherein the container of which is resistant to random, uncontrolled deformation under a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the container, yet having an affordable cost of manufacture and/or being appealing to the consumer. A kit comprising said product thereof, a method of manufacturing said product, and a method of using said product for application onto skin and/or hair are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Victor Akinbobola, Alton Lloyd Finley, III, Matthew David Joseph, Christopher Robert Kopulos, Nicholas Arthur Ruebusch
  • Patent number: 11890262
    Abstract: A composition and method for treatment of brittle, broken, cracked or otherwise damaged nail and hoof plates. The composition is an aqueous-organic medium containing a non-covalent complex of a diamine and an organic acid or an aqueous-organic medium with a diamine alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeta Pavlovic, Sunan Yuvavanich
  • Publication number: 20230380569
    Abstract: Photopolymerizable topcoat and color coat gel compositions suitable for forming a photopolymerized nail coating are described. Both gel compositions include a mixture of one or more pre-formed polymers, a (meth)acrylic monomer, a multi-(meth)acrylate crosslinker, a UV photoinitiator and an antioxidant. The color coat gel composition includes pigments, a smectite clay and silica.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Sunan Yuvavanich, Elizabeta Pavlovic, Paul Bryson
  • Patent number: 11779530
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a permanent shaping composition for the permanent deformation of hair comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, at least one reducing agent comprising a mercapto functional group, at least one alkalizing agent, and a malodor suppressant system comprising at least a first malodor suppressant, herein the first malodor suppressant has a molecular weight of from 100 to 400 g/mol, and wherein the malodor suppressant system has a distribution coefficient log P (octanol/water) of 2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Moussa Barhoum, Manfred Schmitt, Christine Marie Cahen, Graham Neil McKelvey
  • Patent number: 11771633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition comprising at least a first aqueous component (i) and a second aqueous component (ii) being mixed prior to application onto hair, wherein the first aqueous component (i) comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier one or more oxidizing agent(s), and the second aqueous component (ii) comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, one or more alkalizing agent(s) selected from the group consisting of ammonia, its salts and mixtures thereof wherein the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both comprise at least a first and a second malodor suppressant and optionally one or more further malodor suppressants, or the first component (i) comprises at least a first malodor suppressant and the second component (ii) comprises at least a second malodor suppressant, the first and the second malodor suppressant and any further malodor suppressant forming a malodor suppressant system in the hair colouring and/or bleaching com
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Christine Marie Cahen, Manfred Schmitt, Moussa Barhoum
  • Patent number: 11696877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition comprising at least a first aqueous component (i) and a second aqueous component (ii) being mixed prior to application onto hair, wherein the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both components (i) and (ii) comprise a gel-network system consisting of multi-lamellar sheets and vesicles with d-spacing (interlayer spacing between sheets) between 5 nm and 50 nm, preferably 10 nm to 30 nm, more preferred 15 nm to 25 nm as measured by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS), and the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both comprise at least a first malodor suppressant being a compound having a distribution coefficient log P of 2 or more and a molecular weight of between 100 and 400, a method for coloring or bleaching hair, a kit comprising the above components and the use of the described hair coloring composition for colouring and/or bleaching hair with a reduced or eliminated ammonia odour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Moussa Barhoum, Pascale Smets, Frank Veverka, Manfred Schmitt, Ingrid Merere, Christine Marie Cahen
  • Patent number: 11628127
    Abstract: Composition for lightening keratin fibers, comprising: at least 20% weight of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups relative to the total weight of the composition, at least one alkalizing agent, at least one surfactant, and at least one oxidizing agent, wherein the concentration of oxidizing agent in the composition is from 1.5% to 2.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Andrej Gross, Bjoern Hoffmann, Simon Paul Godfrey, Lina Makavou-Jennen
  • Patent number: 11497940
    Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a cationic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dahne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Stephen Robert Schofield, Cagri Uzum, Natascha Katharina Schelero
  • Patent number: 11439573
    Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition suitable for forming a polymerized base coat of a substantially uniform mixture of nitrocellulose and crosslinked (meth)acrylate polymer is disclosed. The composition comprises an ethyl acetate solution including multiple (meth)acrylate monomers, nitrocellulose, a rapid release copolymer of alkyl acrylate monomers, a chain extended di-(hydroxyethylmethacryloyl) trimethylhexyl dicarbamate oligomer of weight average molecular weight of 10 to 20 kDa, one or more plasticizers and a photoinitiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wella Operations US LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Tu, Justina Vy Lan Hoang, Jay Jayasingha Kingsley
  • Patent number: 11337907
    Abstract: A hair-dyeing composition with an effect of minimizing hair damage and scalp irritation caused by ammonia prescription and ammonia odor, which is capable of decreasing ammonia odor peculiar to a hair-dyeing composition and also of supplementing the hair with amino acids similar to hair proteins to decrease hair damage, especially hair roughness and hair shortening, for healthy dyeing and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Wella Operations US, LLC
    Inventors: Sergio Ricardo Justa, Simone Aparecida da França Stefoni, Jéssica Francischini Novais, Beatriz de Moura Abreu
  • Patent number: 11219587
    Abstract: An agent for dyeing keratin fibers comprises a composition A comprising at least one alkalizing agent, at least one oxidative dye precursor, at least one surfactant and at least one fatty substance free of carboxylic acid groups and a composition B comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one surfactant. The concentration of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups after mixing composition A and composition B is at least 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B. The concentration of alkalizing agent after mixing composition A and composition B is not more than 1.75% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Axel Meyer, Andrej Gross, Bjoern Hoffmann, Simon Paul Godfrey, Lina Makavou-Jennen
  • Patent number: 11166903
    Abstract: A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres, the composition comprising: a film-forming aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin; an ether of a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol; a thickening system comprising a deposition enhancer and a thickening polymer; one or more coloured materials or one or more pigments; water; 2-phenoxyethanol and/or phenylmethanol; wherein the composition is substantially free of esters of parahydroxybenzoic acid; and wherein the composition is substantially free of isothiazolinone compounds. Also, associated methods, kits and uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Tatjana Schaefer, Andreas Flohr, Marianna Forgione, Matija Crne, Yonus Gizaw, Ursula Christina Glaser
  • Patent number: 11141365
    Abstract: A hair treatment composition, particularly a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition, comprising an oxidizing agent, an alkalizing agent selected from the group consisting of ammonia, its salts and mixtures thereof, one or more fatty alcohol(s), one or more non-ionic surfactant(s) and a specific fatty compound. It is also provided a kit, method and use thereof. Superior hair treatment performance, particularly superior colouring and bleaching performance, with a reduced or an eliminated smell of said alkalizing agent upon application, is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Jurgen Schmenger, John Peter Lankhof, Donal Grey
  • Patent number: 11142498
    Abstract: A novel class of 3-halo-1H-indol-4-amine derivatives, particularly for dyeing keratin fibers, the azomethine dyes formed from them, their uses as a coupler for dyeing keratin fibers, hair dyeing compositions comprising them, method of dyeing hair thereof, and a hair dyeing kit thereof are disclosed. The products of the oxidative coupling with hair dye primary intermediates, particularly pyrazole derivative, a p-phenylenediamine derivative, a p-aminophenol derivative, have improved fastness properties over currently used violet-blue to blue azomethine dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventor: Bryan P. Murphy
  • Patent number: 11110050
    Abstract: A method for treating hair comprising applying primer(s) and cationic polymer(s) onto a user's hair for improving the styling of the hair in a more manageable and reliable manner and for enhancing the stability of the final style obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dahne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Tatjana Schaefer, Judith Hagios, Mandy Hecht, Moritz Klickermann
  • Patent number: 11052035
    Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a composition having a pH less than 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dähne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Moritz Klickermann, Tatjana Schaefer, Stephen Robert Schofield, Cagri Üzüm
  • Patent number: 11007130
    Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the application onto hair of polymeric layer(s) which can removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using oxidizing composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dahne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Axel Meyer, Stephen Robert Schofield, Cagri Uzum
  • Patent number: 11000709
    Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a composition having a pH of at least 8.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dahne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Tatjana Schaefer, Stephen Robert Schofield, Cagri Uzum
  • Patent number: 10973754
    Abstract: The instant disclosure generally relates to a dual component hair coloring composition for coloring mammalian or synthetic keratin fibers, the composition comprising composition A comprising a cationic polymer, pigment microparticles and an aqueous medium, and comprising composition B comprising an anionic polymer, aqueous medium and optional cross linking agent. Optionally or alternatively composition B may contain pigment particles. The cationic and anionic polymers are at least partially soluble in the medium and the pigment microparticles are dispersed therein. The hair coloring composition forms a dual layer coating upon application to keratin fibers such as hair and has a substantially permanent pigment lastingness following development (setting); minimally alters the keratin fibers, upon application; and substantially eliminates development time. Methods of using such compositions are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Matija Crne, Simon Paul Godfrey, Graham Mckelvey, Lars Siegfried Dahne, Ingo Weber, Markus Speckbacher, Mandy Hecht
  • Patent number: 10959919
    Abstract: A method for treating hair comprising applying at least one pigment onto hair for providing the basis for colouring hair in a more reproducible and reliable manner independently from a user's initial hair colour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wella Operations US, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Siegfried Dahne, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Ingo Weber, Markus Speckbacher, Mandy Hecht, Simon Paul Godfrey