Patents Represented by Attorney Alan A. Bornstein

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  • Test method
    Patent number: 7240539
    Abstract: A test method is described for comparing the relative affinity of products for a target substance using a substrate ordinarily and visibly sensitive to the products. The test method is useful in one embodiment for comparing the ability of harsh cleansers to remove fatty acids from the skin with mild cleansers that do not remove fatty acids to the same extent using a visually compelling substrate, such as a fresh cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Massaro, Douglas Ryan Eli, Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Christine Elizabeth Kennedy
  • Surfactant compositions
    Patent number: 7211198
    Abstract: Laundry treatment compositions comprising 0.001–5 wt % of monomeric hybrid organic/inorganic nanoparticles having a particle size of 1–10 nm and 10–95% surfactant give ease of wash benefits to soiled fabric as well as prevention of adsorption of particulate soils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Javier Barraza, Teodora Atanassova Doneva
  • Isotropic cleansing composition with particulate optical modifiers
    Patent number: 7202199
    Abstract: An aqueous isotropic liquid cleansing and moisturizing composition is provided having a surfactant; a thickening agent, and a solid particulate optical modifier that modifies the appearance of the skin after wash off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Anat Shiloach, Rosa Paredes
  • Fabric treatment
    Patent number: 7192451
    Abstract: A method of treating finished garments comprising cellulosic material so as to cause cross-linking, which comprises the step of treating fabrics with an effective amount of a blocked cross-linking agent for cellulose, the cross-linking agent being thermally activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Shameem Bhatia, Robert John Carswell, Paul Johnathon Evans, Paul Hugh Findlay
  • Laundry treatment compositions comprising a polymer with a cationic and polydialkylsiloxane moiety
    Patent number: 7179777
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising at least one polymeric material comprising a cationic polymer moiety and a polydialkylsiloxane moiety, and at least one other component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilfried Blokzijl, Robert John Carswell, Dominique Charmot, Robert Alan Hunter, Mingjun Liu, Paul Mansky, Victor Nava-Salgado, Giovanni Francesco Unali
  • Process for preparation of particles
    Patent number: 7144852
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the preparation of polysaccharide-grafted polymer particles wherein the polysaccharide is preferably a ?-1,4 linked polysaccharide, comprising miniemulsion polymerisation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, Paul Simon Stevenson
  • Combination toilet bar composition
    Patent number: 7109154
    Abstract: A combination toilet bar composition is described that contains soap, both amphoteric, and synthetic anionic surfactants in a specified ratio and a blend of hydrophobic emollients including a hydrocarbon with a titer of less than about 50 C. The toilet bar provides mild cleansing, moisturization, and creamy lather during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Syed Husain Abbas
  • Fabric treatment compositions comprising organically modified particles
    Patent number: 7105476
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric treatment compositions comprising a textile compatible carrier and water insoluble particles having a layered structure comprising oxygen atoms and silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and comprising organic functional groups which are bonded to silicon and/or phosphorus atoms by direct covalent bonds between the silicon and/or phosphorus atoms and a carbon atom. A number of the compositions may impart anti-wrinkling ie, reduced crease formation or other benefits to fabrics washed or otherwise treated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicola Whilton
  • Textile laundering composition comprising a self-crosslinking cationic polymer
    Patent number: 7091172
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of non-keratinaceous textiles, preferably cellulosic fibers, which comprises the step of treating the textiles with a composition which comprises: a self-crosslinking polymer and a nucleophilic species (preferably a polymer comprising at least one protected thiol group), and a textile compatible carrier. Under domestic washing conditions the polymer forms reactive thiol groups which are capable of causing covalent cross-linking with the polymer. Preferably, the thiol group is protected as an isothiouronium group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: John Oakes, Matthew Sugdon
  • Laundry composition
    Patent number: 7077870
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising composition comprising: i) a polymer having an average repeat unit of: in which R1-6 are independently of one another selected from H, a hydrolysable group, or a fibre reactive group in which when R1-6 is a hydrolysable group the degree of substitution is 0 to 1, and wherein R1-6 is a fibre reactive group the degree of substitution is from 0.05 to 1 and; ii) a carrier agent selected from surfactants, softening compounds or water wit the proviso that when the carrier agent is water the composition further comprises perfume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Hugh Findlay, Dax Kukulj, David Richard Arthur Mealing
  • Substrate treating compositions comprising a C7 or higher monohydric alcohol
    Patent number: 7056875
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition for improving substrate characteristics. The composition has a substrate enhancing agent, like a monohydric alcohol, and the composition reduces wrinkles in substrates that have not been subjected to ironing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Fox, David Van Blarcom, Francoise Fredericks Meyer
  • Process for preparing perfume film chips
    Patent number: 7049274
    Abstract: A process for preparing perfume film chips comprising inclusions of perfume particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidyadhar Sudhir Ranade, Antonius Henricus Strijbosch, deceased
  • Fabric care composition comprising a block copolymer having a methoxyethyl acrylate core polymer and an alkyl methacrylate flanking polymer
    Patent number: 7030076
    Abstract: This invention relates to a fabric care composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer and a textile compatible carrier, a method of treating fabric with such a composition as part of a laundering process and the use of a thermoplastic elastomer or a composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer to improve the crease recovery properties and/or elasticity and/or shape retention of a fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert John Carswell, James Bernard Cooper, Ezat Khoshdel, Euan Stuart Reid, Keith Leslie Rutherford
  • Soap bar
    Patent number: D520186
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Barclay Caroen, Mark Morgan
  • Soap bar
    Patent number: D535782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrice Sant'ana Cáceres, Alexandre De Souza Faria
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D538665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Lea Wilson, Mark Dieter Dziersk, Joey Gyomay Nakayama, Matthew Scott Okin
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D542141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Scott Okin, Mark Dieter Dziersk, Raymond Michael Flaig
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D542663
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Dieter Dziersk, Joey Gyomay Nakayama, Matthew Scott Okin
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D546187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Jörg Ratzlaff
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D546693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Scott Okin, Mark Dieter Dziersk, Raymond Michael Flaig