Patents by Inventor Morgan Thomas Leahy

Morgan Thomas Leahy 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: 8714855
    Abstract: A package for treating stained fabric. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The package can have a first position in which first and second planar regions of the backing layer are substantially in plane with one another. The package can have a second position in which first planar region and second planar region are in a substantially angularly facing relationship. In the second position the pouch can be in fluid communication with the contact substrate. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Patent number: 8709099
    Abstract: A method for treating a stained fabric using a package is disclosed. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The method comprises bending the backing layer, dispensing the stain treatment fluid to the fluid pervious contact substrate through a portion of the backing layer; gripping the backing layer and rubbing the stained fabric with the contact substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Patent number: 8484867
    Abstract: A device for refreshing fabrics. The device provides fabrics with a crisp and fresh appearance and feel. The device also controls wrinkles on fabric without the use of a conventional iron or press. The device also allows for the delivery of fabric refreshing actives such as perfumes and other actives to fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Roselle, Laura Marie Tanno-Smith, Tara Lynn Armstrong, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Patent number: 8425136
    Abstract: A package for treating stained fabric. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The package can have a first position in which first and second planar regions of the backing layer are substantially in plane with one another. The package can have a second position in which first planar region and second planar region are in a substantially angularly facing relationship. In the second position the pouch can be in fluid communication with the contact substrate. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20110170938
    Abstract: A package for treating stained fabric. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The package can have a first position in which first and second planar regions of the backing layer are substantially in plane with one another. The package can have a second position in which first planar region and second planar region are in a substantially angularly facing relationship. In the second position the pouch can be in fluid communication with the contact substrate. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20110167568
    Abstract: A package for treating stained fabric. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The package can have a first position in which first and second planar regions of the backing layer are substantially in plane with one another. The package can have a second position in which first planar region and second planar region are in a substantially angularly facing relationship. In the second position the pouch can be in fluid communication with the contact substrate. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20110167569
    Abstract: A method for treating stained fabric. The method includes the step of providing a contact substrate containing a stain treatment fluid. The contact substrate can have micro fibers having a diameter less than about 5 micrometers. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20110167570
    Abstract: A package for treating stained fabric and a method for using such package. The package can have a backing layer having a second side and a pouch layer joined thereto to form a pouch. A fluid pervious contact substrate can be joined to a first side of the backing layer. The pouch can contain a stain treatment fluid. The package can have a first position in which first and second planar regions of the backing layer are substantially in plane with one another. The package can have a second position in which first planar region and second planar region are in a substantially angularly facing relationship. In the second position the pouch can be in fluid communication with the contact substrate. The stain treatment fluid can include a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Janet Sue Littig, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Kuang-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20100299976
    Abstract: A device for refreshing fabrics. The device provides fabrics with a crisp and fresh appearance and feel. The device also controls wrinkles on fabric without the use of a conventional iron or press. The device also allows for the delivery of fabric refreshing actives such as perfumes and other actives to fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Roselle, Laura Marie Tanno-Smith, Tara Lynn Armstrong, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Patent number: 7267728
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle. The system and method utilize a cleaning composition that contains at least one water-soluble or water dispersible copolymer. The method may also include a step of applying to the surface a treating composition which contains non-photoactive nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Barger, Thomas Geroge Crowe, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Patent number: 7066998
    Abstract: Materials for coating, coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system or employing the same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of hard surfaces are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to modified hard surfaces. In some embodiments, actively curing the coating composition on the hard surfaces, including, but not limited to by radiative heating the air surrounding the hard surface with the coating thereon can be used to increase the durability of the hard surface coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Michael Ray McDonald, John David Carter, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Helen Frances O'Connor, Heather Anne Liddle, Marc Francois Evers, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Alan Scott Goldstein, Brian Joseph Loughnane
  • Patent number: 6846512
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method forms a transparent, hydrophilic coating on the surface of a vehicle. This embodiment of the method includes the steps of: (a) providing a vehicle having at least some surfaces that are at least one of the following: cured painted surfaces, cured clearcoat surfaces, and glass surfaces; (b) applying a non-photoactive nanoparticle coating composition to such surfaces; and (c) allowing the coating composition to dry on such surfaces before the surfaces are contacted by water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Patent number: 6562142
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle. The system and method utilize a cleaning composition that contains at least one water-soluble or water dispersible copolymer. The method may also include a step of applying to the surface a treating composition which contains non-photoactive nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Barger, Thomas Geroge Crowe, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Publication number: 20020176982
    Abstract: Materials for coating, coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system or employing the same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of hard surfaces are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to modified hard surfaces. In some embodiments, actively curing the coating composition on the hard surfaces, including, but not limited to by radiative heating the air surrounding the hard surface with the coating thereon can be used to increase the durability of the hard surface coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Michael Ray McDonald, John David Carter, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Helen Frances O'Connor, Heather Anne Liddle, Marc Francois Evers, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Alan Scott Goldstein, Brian Joseph Loughnane
  • Publication number: 20020160224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Barger, Thomas George Crowe, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy
  • Publication number: 20020144712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for cleaning and/or treating a surface, preferably surfaces such as ceramic, steel, plastic, glass and/or painted surfaces such as the exterior surface of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Bruce Barger, Thomas Geroge Crowe, Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Alan Scott Goldstein, Michael Ray McDonald, Helen Frances O'Connor, Morgan Thomas Leahy