Patents by Inventor Julie Charlene Rule

Julie Charlene Rule 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: 8632793
    Abstract: A treated substrate with improved availability of a beneficial component for transfer to a target surface and methods for making the same are described. The substrate has a contacting surface with a beneficial component that is transferred from the contacting surface to a target surface during use of the article. The beneficial component is applied to the article in such a way as to “Top-Bias” the component on or near the contacting surface of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Olaf Isele, Joseph Anthony Gatto, Thomas James Klofta, Matthew Gerald McNally, Julie Charlene Rule, James Anthony Staudigel, Kirsten Kae Stone, Sherman Lee Taylor, II
  • Patent number: 8378168
    Abstract: A feminine hygiene garment containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a nonuniform pattern of a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition is semi-solid or solid at 20° C. and is partially transferable to the wearer's skin. The lotion composition is applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such that there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion. In one embodiment the nonuniform pattern is a plurality of stripes of lotion that are separated by a plurality of stripes having no lotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Patent number: 7166292
    Abstract: A treated substrate with improved availability of a beneficial component for transfer to a target surface and methods for making the same are described. The substrate has a contacting surface with a beneficial component that is transferred from the contacting surface to a target surface during use of the article. The beneficial component is applied to the article in such a way as to “Top-Bias” the component on or near the contacting surface of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Olaf Isele, Joseph Anthony Gatto, Thomas James Klofta, Matthew Gerald McNally, Julie Charlene Rule, James Anthony Staudigel, Kirsten Kae Stone, Sherman Lee Taylor, II
  • Patent number: 6861571
    Abstract: An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the case of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Publication number: 20040199136
    Abstract: An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the ease of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Publication number: 20040193126
    Abstract: An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the ease of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Publication number: 20030035824
    Abstract: A treated substrate with improved availability of a beneficial component for transfer to a target surface and methods for making the same are described. The substrate has a contacting surface with a beneficial component that is transferred from the contacting surface to a target surface during use of the article. The beneficial component is applied to the article in such a way as to “Top-Bias” the component on or near the contacting surface of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Olaf Isele, Joseph Anthony Gatto, Thomas James Klofta, Matthew Gerald McNally, Julie Charlene Rule, James Anthony Staudigel, Kirsten Kae Stone, Sherman Lee Taylor
  • Patent number: 6426444
    Abstract: An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the ease of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Publication number: 20010025162
    Abstract: An article containing a liquid pervious topsheet coated with a lotion composition is disclosed. The lotion composition provides a skin benefit and/or reduces the adherence of BM to the skin of the wearer, thereby improving the ease of BM clean up. The lotion composition applied to the article in a nonuniform manner, preferably such there are regions on the article's topsheet that are not coated with lotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck, Julie Charlene Rule
  • Patent number: 6107537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to absorbent articles which provide improved protection against skin overhydration. A particularly preferred embodiment of an absorbent article of the present invention comprises a body contacting surface having a skin care composition thereon that, when at least a portion of the composition is transferred to a wearer's skin by normal body motion or body heat, the material is effective in providing a skin condition benefit and a liquid impermeable, breathable backsheet having a mass vapor transmission rate value (MVTR) of at least about 1300 g/m.sup.2 /24 hr and an absorbent core having a post acquisition collagen rewet method value (PACORM) with a PACORM:MVTR ratio is less than 0.05 mg/(g/m.sup.2 /24 hr).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gretchen Louise Elder, Donald Carroll Roe, Laura Graves Van Rijswijck, Mathias Kurt Herrlein, Manfred Plischke, Julie Charlene Rule, George Christopher Dobrin, Edward John Milbrada