Patents Represented by Attorney Alan A. Bornstein

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  • Azetidinium modified polymers and fabric treatment composition
    Patent number: 7429558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fabric treatment composition which comprises a self-crosslinking polymer possessing pendant azetidinium groups. A first aspect of the invention comprises an azetidinium functionalized polymer containing primary or secondary amine groups. Cross-linking reactions between the azetidinium group and primary or secondary amine groups do not form quaternary groups and consequently do not result in a charged, cross-linked polymer. This lack of charge is believed to overcome the problems of stain fixing and dye adsorption. A second aspect of the present invention subsists in an azetidinium functionalized polymer of which the monomers comprise: an amino-acrylate and/or amino-alkacrylate monomer, and, optionally, further non-amino acrylate and/or alkacrylate monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Norman Batchelor, Paul Hugh Findlay, Joseph Edward Hunter, Andrew Philip Parker, Stephen Paul Rannard
  • Dilution thickened personal cleansing composition
    Patent number: 7417014
    Abstract: A liquid or flowable cleansing composition is described that contains high levels of anionic and nonionic surfactants and that show a substantial increase in viscosity upon dilution with water. The cleansing composition also contains water soluble EO/PO block copolymer(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Teanoosh Moaddel, Syed Husain Abbas, Kimberly Ozkan-Bal
  • Soap wrappers
    Patent number: 7401697
    Abstract: A bar of soap having, wrapped laterally of the bar, around at least a longitudinal extent of the bar, a stiffening member comprising a stiff sheet material having at least respective outer surfaces thereof each provided by a plastics material. At least a portion of the stiffening member is transparent to allow the soap to be viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: David Moss
  • Method of laundering coloured fabrics
    Patent number: 7381226
    Abstract: A method of treating coloured fabrics with a luminance (L*) less than 50, preferably black garments, which comprises contacting the fabrics with a wash liquor comprising 0.001-0.1 g/L of a hydroxyl C2-C4 alkyl derivative of a beta 1-4 polysaccharide, which is preferably hydroxyethyl cellulose, and a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah Jane Cooke, Sarah Dixon, Timothy David Finch, Colette Elizabeth Laurie, Andrew Philip Parker
  • Bar soap with fibrous assembly
    Patent number: 7381692
    Abstract: A cleansing article composed of a solid or semi-solid foamable composition and a batting layer with bonded fibers is described that provides the user with a pleasant personal cleansing experience and which in one embodiment combines cleansing, aesthetic and/or skin benefit with active agents and exfoliation. The user also experiences substantial lather during use of the cleansing article. The batting layer is at least partially encompassed by the solid or semi-solid foamable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Aaron Grissett, Filomena Augusta Macedo, Diane Marie Keenan, David Robert Williams
  • Fabric laundering
    Patent number: 7381227
    Abstract: Relatively low levels of polysaccharides in combination with small, deformable, water-insoluble particles of a size in the range 0.05-5 microns are capable of giving benefits in a wash liquor in terms of reduced fabric abrasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Philip Parker
  • Fabric care composition comprising a polysaccharide-grafted polymer particle
    Patent number: 7357987
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polysaccharide-grafted polymer particle containing a lubricant wherein the polysaccharide is preferably a ?-1,4 linked polysaccharide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Alan Hunter
  • Ordered liquid crystalline cleansing composition with particulate optical modifiers
    Patent number: 7326671
    Abstract: An ordered liquid crystalline phase cleansing composition is disclosed that contains a solid particulate optical modifier that modifies the appearance of the skin after rinsing the skin. A method of depositing the solid particulate optical modifier to the skin or hair with the ordered liquid crystalline phase cleansing composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Anat Shiloach, Rosa Paredes
  • Laundry treatment compositions comprising a ?1-4 linked substituted polysaccharide
    Patent number: 7297672
    Abstract: A composition comprising a silicone having a viscosity modifying agent dissolved or dispersed therein and a deposition aid, wherein the deposition aid comprises a polymeric material comprising one or more moieties for enhancing affinity for a fabric, especially cotton or a cotton-containing fabric and one or more silicone moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Bermard Cooper, Robert Alan Hunter, Giovanni Francesco Unali
  • Soap bar
    Patent number: D547492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Barclay Caroen, Mark Morgan
  • Cleansing implement
    Patent number: D549411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Patrick William Brown
  • Cleansing implement
    Patent number: D549412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Patrick William Brown
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D550085
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Jörg Ratzlaff
  • Cleansing article
    Patent number: D554310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca Jeanne Citron, Stuart Harvey Lee, Vincent Michael Masotta
  • Cleansing article
    Patent number: D554311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Harvey Lee, Rebecca Jeanne Citron, Vincent Michael Masotta
  • Cleansing article
    Patent number: D554312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jochen Rainer Schaepers, Lindsay Noelle Krembs, Stuart Harvey Lee, Vincent Michael Masotta
  • Cleansing article
    Patent number: D554816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Harvey Lee, Rebecca Jeanne Citron, Vincent Michael Masotta
  • Soap bar
    Patent number: D569036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Gutfleisch, Richard William Seymour, Michael James Webster
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D580767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Scott Okin, Mark Dieter Dziersk, Raymond Michael Flaig
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D581794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Hamilton Haubert, III, Laurent Jean-Marie Hainaut, Gareth Frederick Jones, Mary Margaret Sheridan, John Almstead, Amir Perlmutter