Patents by Inventor Colleen M. Merritt

Colleen M. Merritt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11884897
    Abstract: Hard surface, in particular glass, cleaners having an ease in wipe-out while providing good cleaning with a streak-free, glossy shine are described. The cleaner includes at least one fluorosurfactant including a fluorinated functional group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a hydrophilic moiety; at least one non-fluorinated surfactant; a combination of solvents; a combination of cleaning agents; and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Colleen M. Merritt, Loretta G. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20180148667
    Abstract: Hard surface, in particular glass, cleaners having an ease in wipe-out while providing good cleaning with a streak-free, glossy shine are described. The cleaner includes at least one fluorosurfactant including a fluorinated functional group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a hydrophilic moiety; at least one non-fluorinated surfactant; a combination of solvents; a combination of cleaning agents; and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Colleen M. Merritt, Loretta G. Lynch
  • Patent number: 6245361
    Abstract: An aqueous cleaning and disinfecting composition is disclosed that is a synergistic combination of (a) a sufficient amount of a chlorine-containing bleach compound such as sodium hypochlorite or sodium dichloroisocyanurate to provide from about 1,100 parts per million by weight of available chlorine level with (b) from about 600 to 800 parts per million by weight of bactericidal quaternary ammonium compounds such as mixtures of didecyldimethylammonium chloride and (C12-C16 alkyl)dimethylbenzylammonium chlorides. Such compositions are tuberculocidal at unexpectedly low concentrations. Also disclosed are two component compositions and methods of disinfecting surfaces containing tubercule bacilli and other pathogenic micro-organisms such as bacteria and viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.
    Inventor: Colleen M. Merritt
  • Patent number: 5057241
    Abstract: Disclosed are thickened single phase detergent compositions for cleaning the body which have modified pseudoplastic characteristics because they contain a combination of two polymers which make them especially suitable for dispensing from containers which impart shear to the composition during dispensing and to methods for making such compositions. The compositions contain from about 1-20% anionic, nonionic and/or amphoteric surfactants and preferably contain anionic surfactants. The polymer imparting pseudoplastic characteristics is about 0.3 to 1.5% of an addition polymer of a C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 alpha, beta-monoethylenically unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid, at least one monoethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer lacking surfactant capacity and at least one monomer possessing surfactant capacity which is the reaction product of a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer with a nonionic surfactant compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Colleen M. Merritt, Jerry L. Newman, David L. Shelton, Sheng-Liang Tsaur