Patents by Inventor Neil Lant

Neil Lant 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).

  • Publication number: 20070197423
    Abstract: Detergent compositions containing high efficiency lipase enzymes and specific detergent formulations comprising a high reserve alkalinity, greater than 7.5, and less than 15 wt % zeolite and phosphate builder are described. Preferred formulations comprise surfactants selected from alkyl benzene sulphonates in combination with alky ethoxylated sulfates or MES or non-ionic surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Neil Lant, Steven Patterson
  • Publication number: 20070191248
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a detergent ingredient and a specific lipase variant with reduced potential for odor generation and a good relative performance versus the parent lipase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Philip Souter, John Burdis, Kim Borch, Allan Svendsen, Mikael Mikkelsen, Jesper Vind, Neil Lant
  • Publication number: 20070179075
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain lipase variants and a fabric hueing agent and processes for making and using such compositions. Including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Philip Souter, John Burdis, Neil Lant
  • Publication number: 20070173430
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (i) a lipase; and (ii) a bleach catalyst that is capable of accepting an oxygen atom from a peroxyacid and transferring the oxygen atom to an oxidizeable substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Philip Souter, Neil Lant, Alan Brooker, Gregory Miracle, Nicola Binney, David Daugherty
  • Publication number: 20060189501
    Abstract: Detergent compositions containing high efficiency lipase enzymes and specific detergent formulations comprising less than 10 wt % zeolite and phosphate builder are described. Preferred formulations comprise surfactants selected from alkyl benzene sulphonates in combination with alky ethoxylated sulfates or MES or non-ionic surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Neil Lant, Steven Patterson
  • Publication number: 20060128586
    Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising high efficiency lipase enzymes and particles comprising encapsulated perfumes. Preferred perfumes have a boiling point at 760 mm Hg, of 260° C. or lower and a calculated CLogP of at least 3.0. The encapsulated perfume particles are useful in laundry compositions in order to provide efficacious perfume delivery at all stages of the wash, particularly during the laundering stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Lant, Allan McRitchie, Jonathan Clare, Philip Souter, Javier Medina, Zaiyou Liu
  • Publication number: 20060116304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to perfume compositions that are especially useful for masking fatty acid odors, particularly short-chain fatty acid odors such as the odor of butyric acid, consumer products such as cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising such perfume compositions, and processes of making and using such compositions and consumer products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Allan McRitchie, Philip Souter, Jonathan Clare, Javier Medina, Zaiyou Liu, Neil Lant
  • Publication number: 20060111264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Sivik, Neil Lant, James Lickiss
  • Publication number: 20050028294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a photo-bleaching component and a fluorescent whitening component having good compatibility. In particular, the present invention relates to a composition suitable for the treatment of textiles, comprising a photo-bleaching component and a fluorescent whitening component, wherein the photo-bleaching component is capable of absorbing light to form an intermediate energetically excited photo-bleaching component, the intermediate energetically excited photo-bleaching component is capable of activating molecular oxygen from its triplet oxygen electronic energy state to its singlet oxygen electronic energy state, characterised in that the intermediate energetically excited photo-bleaching component has a lifetime of greater than 50 microseconds, preferably greater than 100 microseconds, more preferably greater than 200 microseconds, and most preferably greater than 300 microseconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Neil Lant, Alan Willey