Patents by Inventor Steven Baldwin McGowan

Steven Baldwin McGowan 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).

  • Furniture polish compositions substantially free of organic solvents
    Publication number: 20090088519
    Abstract: An easily spreadable furniture polish composition that provides dusting benefits and imparts shine with minimal residue to a surface to be treated. The furniture polish composition includes a film former, an aqueous carrier, an anionic associative polymer free of acrylates/C10-C30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymers, and is substantially free of organic solvents. In one embodiment, the anionic associative polymer is a hydrophobically-modified alkali-soluble emulsion polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Jeffrey Lee Butterbaugh, Steven Baldwin McGowan, Joseph Michael Gaines
  • Detergent tablet
    Patent number: 6770616
    Abstract: A multi-phase detergent tablet for use in a washing machine, the tablet comprising a first phase in adhesive contact with one or more second phases, and wherein at least the first phase is in the form of a compressed particulate solid incorporating a cogranulated detergency additive composition comprising polymeric polycarboxylate and inorganic carrier. The multi-phase tablets provide improved interphase adhesivity, robustness and strength together with excellent dissolution and cleaning characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Baldwin McGowan, James Iain Kinloch, Alasdair Duncan McGregor
  • Process for making tabletted detergent compositions
    Patent number: 6177393
    Abstract: A process for making a detergent composition comprising solid components which form a total particulate base detergent matrix and a liquid hydrocarbon component, the process comprises the steps of applying liquid hydrocarbon onto a high porosity fraction selected from the total particulate base detergent matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alasdair Duncan McGregor, Jane Margaret Warwick, Steven Baldwin McGowan