Patents Represented by Attorney Angela K. Haughey
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Patent number: 8349300Abstract: A personal cleansing composition comprising: a. from about 5% to about 50% by weight of an anionic detersive surfactant; b. from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of a first cationic polymer having a cationic charge density of less than about 4 meq/gm, wherein said first cationic polymer forms an isotropic coacervate; c. from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of a second cationic polymer having a cationic charge density of greater than or equal to about 4 meq/gm, wherein said second cationic polymer forms a lyotropic liquid crystal coacervate; and d. from about 20% to about 94% by weight of water.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Lee Wells, Mark Anthony Brown, Douglas Allan Royce, Brandon Scott Lane
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Patent number: 8349302Abstract: Shampoo compositions comprise (a) from about 5% to about 50% of one or more detersive surfactants; (b) a dispersed gel network phase comprising: (i) at least about 0.05% of one or more fatty amphiphiles; (ii) at least about 0.01% of one or more secondary surfactants; and (iii) water; (c) at least about 0.05% of a galactomannan polymer derivative with a net positive charge and having a mannose to galactose ratio of greater than 2:1 on a monomer to monomer basis, wherein the galactomannan polymer derivative has: (i) a molecular weight from about 1,000 to about 10,000,000; and (ii) a cationic charge density from about 0.7 meq/g to about 7 meq/g; and (d) at least about 20% of an aqueous carrier; all by weight of the shampoo composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Eric Scott Johnson, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Benjamin Parker Heath, Sarah Elizabeth Cooper
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Patent number: 8349780Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition including an active material having groups capable of covalent attachment to a substrate in the presence of an acid or a base, a photocatalyst capable of generating an acid or a base upon exposure to light, and a vehicle. The active is a silicone polymer and/or a silicone oligomer, having a molecular weight higher than 1,000 grams/mole, and at least one organic functional group. The compositions may also include surfactants, emulsifiers, oxidants, and other components. A method for treating a substrate is also disclosed. The compositions and methods described herein are useful in personal care product and consumer care product applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ellen Schmidt Baker, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides, Qian Li
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Patent number: 8349301Abstract: Shampoo compositions comprise (a) from about 5% to about 50% of one or more detersive surfactants, by weight of the shampoo composition; (b) a dispersed gel network phase comprising, by weight of the shampoo composition, (i) at least about 0.05% of one or more fatty amphiphiles; (ii) at least about 0.01% of one or more secondary surfactants; and (iii) water; and (c) at least about 20% of an aqueous carrier, by weight of the shampoo composition. A process for preparing a shampoo composition comprises the steps of: (a) combining a fatty amphiphile, a secondary surfactant, and water at a temperature sufficient to allow partitioning of the secondary surfactant and the water into the fatty amphiphile to form a pre-mix; (b) cooling the pre-mix below the chain melt temperature of the fatty amphiphile to form a gel network; (c) adding the gel network to one or more detersive surfactants and an aqueous carrier to form a shampoo composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Lee Wells, Douglas Allan Royce, Eric Scott Johnson, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Benjamin Parker Heath
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Patent number: 8349341Abstract: The present invention relates to hair care compositions, especially those hair care compositions in the form of a hair care article that is a porous dissolvable solid substrate. The porous dissolvable solid substrate has a surface resident coating comprising the cationic surfactant conditioner active that can provide a conditioning benefit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Kathleen Mary Kaufman
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Patent number: 8349786Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions, especially those personal care compositions in the form of a personal care article that is a porous dissolvable solid substrate. The porous dissolvable solid substrate has a surface resident coating comprising a cyclodextrin perfume complex that can provide a consumer benefit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., James Merle Heinrich, Kathleen Mary Kaufman, Virginia Tzung-Hwei Hutchins, Zerlina Guzdar Dubois, Jianjun Justin Li, Kevin M. Labitzke
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Patent number: 8349787Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions, especially those personal care compositions in the form of a personal care article that is a porous dissolvable solid substrate. The porous dissolvable solid substrate has a surface resident coating comprising the cationic surfactant conditioner active that can provide a conditioning benefit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Kathleen Mary Kaufman
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Patent number: 8273333Abstract: A non-lathering personal care article in the form of a porous dissolvable solid structure, comprising: from about 0% to about 10% ionic surfactant; from about 1% to about 60% of a non-surfactant cosmetic active; from about 15% to about 70% polymeric structurant, wherein the polymeric structurant has a weighted average molecular weight of from about 40,000 to about 500,000; and from about 1% to about 30% plasticizer. The article has a density of from about 0.03 g/cm3 to about 0.15 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., James Merle Heinrich, Kathleen Mary Kaufman, Joanne Roberta Willman
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Patent number: 8268764Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions, especially those personal care compositions in the form of a personal care article that is a porous dissolvable solid substrate. The porous dissolvable solid substrate has a surface resident coating comprising the starch perfume complex that can provide a consumer benefit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Kathleen Mary Kaufman, Virginia Tzung-Hwei Hutchins, Zerlina Guzdar Dubois
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Patent number: 8017108Abstract: A conditioning composition containing an aminosilicone having a viscosity of from about 1,000 cs to about 1,000,000 cs, and less than about 0.5% nitrogen by weight of the aminosilicone, a cationic surfactant, a high melting point fatty compound, and an aqueous carrier. These compositions may optionally comprise a low viscosity fluid. The present invention is further directed to a method of making the conditioning composition and a method of using the conditioning composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ellen Schmidt Baker, Nobuaki Uehara, Robert Lee Wells, Kendrick Jon Hughes
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Patent number: 8017106Abstract: The present invention provides stable aerosol cream mousse composition, preferably hair care composition, that can provide enhanced touch, combability, alignment and volume reduction to the hair, with low or reduced greasy, oily hair feel, while being formulated having a thick, rich, creamy, mousse-type rheology with excellent spreading, perception of spreading, and feel. The aerosol composition is based on the combination of component (A) a cationic surfactant, which is generally a quaternary ammonium compound such as e.g., ditallow dimethyl ammonium chloride; (B) a fatty alcohol, such as cetyl and stearyl alcohol; and (C) carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Walter Keller, Christian Springob, Bianka Schmich, Timothy Müller
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Patent number: 7981167Abstract: A method of preventing color loss from dyed hair comprising the application of a hair care composition comprising from about 0.1% to about 20% of a sulfoalkyl(meth)acrylate compound, an alkylacetamido(meth)acrylate, or a mixture thereof, and a dermatologically acceptable carrier wherein the sulfoalkyl(meth)acrylate compound and the alkylacetamido(meth)acrylate undergo polymerization inside the hair fibers.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jose Antonio Carballada, Timothy Roy Nijakowski, Bryan Patrick Murphy, Alexis M. J. A. Huyghues-Despointes, Axel Kalbfleisch
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Patent number: 7928739Abstract: A sensor for measuring moisture content of a substrate, comprising: a coplanar waveguide; a directional coupler having a pair of generally parallel first and second strips defining a coupling gap therebetween; and a high frequency signal generator electrically coupled to said first strip and operable to couple power to said second strip with the substrate placed across said coupling gap to thereby generate a coupled power signal in said second strip having an amplitude related to moisture content of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Faiz Feisal Sherman, Vladimir Garstein, David Burton Moore
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Patent number: 7875266Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of fully esterified di- or oligosaccharide polyesters in hair styling products selected from hair styling waxes, hair styling creams, hair styling foam wax products, and hair styling spray wax products. Preferred saccharide polyesters are octaesters of sucrose and C8 to C30 fatty acids such as behenic acid and fatty acids derived from cotton seed oil.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andrea Walter, Susanne Birkel
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Patent number: 7842286Abstract: The present invention relates to hair styling creams comprising a crosslinked silicone polymer; an alkoxylated compound selected from polyethylenoxides and polyalkoxylated silicone compounds; emulsifier; a fatty phase; and an aqueous phase. The cream can be transferred into rope-, thread-, or fiber-like structures when distributed in the hands. It gives a powdery feel after drying and improves stability and gloss of hair.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andrea Walter, Manuela Hannich, Bianka Schmich, Marina Loifenfeld
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Patent number: 7122199Abstract: A method of bleaching a plurality of adjacent teeth is disclosed. The teeth having facial and lingual surfaces. The method includes applying a tooth bleaching delivery system to a plurality of adjacent teeth, wherein the tooth bleaching delivery system includes a strip of material and a tooth bleaching composition having a peroxide active.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paul Albert Sagel, Robert Stanley Dirksing, Frederick James Rohman, Lisa Rae Glaser
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Patent number: 6949240Abstract: A tooth whitening product is provided. The tooth whitening product includes a strip of material sized to cover the front surface of one or more teeth and soft tissue adjacent the front surface of the teeth. A thin layer of a tooth whitening composition is disposed on the strip of material. The whitening composition contains a peroxide active with a concentration greater than about 7.5% by weight of the tooth whitening composition, and the tooth whitening composition has a peroxide density less than about 1.3 mg/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paul Albert Sagel, Robert Woodrow Gerlach
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Patent number: 6877638Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-chambered tube for containing and dispensing a contents, comprising: (a) a body divided by at least one divider wall into at least two chambers, each chamber housing a portion of the contents, the body being sealed at one end by a crimp seal and one end of the divider wall being sealed within the crimp seal; (b) a shoulder attached to the body; (c) a nozzle attached to the shoulder and provided with an orifice through which the contents are dispensed; (d) a flow regulating element located in the shoulder of the tube and being comprised of as many sections as there are body chambers, and each section being provided with at least one aperture; (e) at least one partition separating the sections of the flow regulating element from each other and dividing the nozzle into as many nozzle chambers as there are body chambers, each nozzle chamber being in communication with a body chamber via the aperture(s) in the corresponding section of the flow regulating element.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Geoffrey Chan, Li Li
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Patent number: D649064Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Janelle Yurong Wang Treadway, Marc Christopher Hatcher, Graham Hufton, Ian Andrew Carnduff, Paul F. Diehl, Akina Kurihara, Douglas Scott Miller