Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Brent M. Peebles
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Patent number: 7182941Abstract: Methods of treating an inanimate object or inanimate surface which has malodor impression to reduce the malodor impression comprise the step of contacting the inanimate object or inanimate surface with an effective amount of a composition for reducing malodor impression comprising: (a) from about 0.1% to about 1%, by weight of the composition, of perfume; (b) cyclodextrin; (c) aerosol propellant; (d) optionally, solubilizing aid; and (e) aqueous carrier. The compositions used in the methods are essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric. The inanimate surface treated via the present methods is preferably fabric.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Toan Trinh, Jerome Paul Cappel, Philip Anthony Geis, Judith Ann Hollingshead, Mark Lee McCarty, Susan Schmaedecke Zwerdling
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Patent number: 7160515Abstract: Volatile material-containing articles of manufacture are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Rachel Murdell, Stephan Gary Bush
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Patent number: 7081211Abstract: Multi-layer reaction mixtures that includes exothermic generating particles having a water soluble coating encasing a portion of the particles, a volatile component and, optionally, a buffer, an aqueous solution or both. At least two layers of the reaction mixture contain exothermic generating particles and at least one layer of the reaction mixture contains a portion of the exothermic generating particles suspended in a gel that includes the water soluble coating. These multi-layer reaction mixtures are especially suited to generate heat in a controllable manner. In one such controlled reaction, the reaction components are mixed together and the reaction mixture increases in temperature to a Set Temperature within a predetermined time, and the mixture remains at the Set Temperature for a longer period of time. In this manner, volatile components can be controllably released to the surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2003Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Yu-jun Li, Mark Hsiang-Kuen Mao, Haruo Tamura, Hsin-Yuan Hu
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Patent number: 6964941Abstract: A chemical cleaning composition for cleaning electronic equipment and electric or electronic appliances, a device for the application of such composition, and a method of cleaning such equipment are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andrea Filippo Argentieri, Sergio Rossi, Stefano Scialla, Murat Gökce Suer, Giovanni Grande
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Patent number: 6955067Abstract: A portable, self-contained, device for dosing and/or dispensing at least one product into an appliance for treating laundry or dishes is disclosed. The device includes a housing with at least one compartment for containing at least one product. The compartment(s) can be closed by at least one corresponding cover. The device further includes at least one means for storing and releasing energy, so that the product to be dispensed may be released at one or more predetermined point(s) in time during a wash cycle. In one embodiment, the means may be a battery, such as a rechargeable battery. The device may also include at least one sensor and/or at least one actuator for detecting when the wash conditions are optimal and open at least one of the compartments for releasing a product.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Dorothee Hélène Davenet, Jean-Luc Azzani, Bradford Scott Barron, Todd Mitchell Day, Luca Diamanti, Christopher Lawrence Smith
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Patent number: 6945392Abstract: A container includes a housing for containing an O2-generating composition. The housing includes a venting layer and a structural layer associated with the venting layer. The venting layer has a venting layer O2 passage rate and a venting layer surface area, while the structural layer has a structural layer O2 passage rate and a structural layer surface area. The venting layer O2 passage rate is greater than the structural layer O2 passage rate, and the structural layer surface area is less than the venting layer surface area. Alternatively, the structural layer may include a plurality of apertures and a patch associated with each aperture, instead of a venting layer. Each patch has a patch O2 passage rate and the total O2 passage rate of the container includes the sum of each patch O2 passage rate. The total O2 passage rate is at least about 0.2 L/(m2*24 hours).Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Shizuka Furukawa, Yukio Nanno
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Patent number: 6913733Abstract: Apparatus and methods for deodorizing and/or freshening the air are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more passive members and an air moving member. The passive member can be detachable from the air moving member and used separately as a passive filter member, if it contains a deodorizing substance, or as a passive emitting member, if it contains a substance to be emitted into the air. Numerous combinations of passive filter members and passive emitting members can be used with the air moving member, or as stand-alone members in the described methods. In other non-limiting embodiments, devices can be provided that both deodorize and emit substances into the air. Kits are also provided. The substances to be emitted may be arranged in various ways to improve the amount of exposed surface area of the substance to be emitted. Intensity controlling mechanisms are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Charles Michael Hardy, Kevin George Goodall, Jeffrey Donald Painter, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eric Richard Bartsch
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Patent number: 6849584Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to personal cleansing compositions having from about 4% to about 50%, by weight, of a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic, cationic, nonionic, amphoteric, and zwitterionic surfactants and mixtures thereof; from about 0.05% to about 10% by weight of a dispersed, water insoluble solid particles or solid, temperature stable particles; from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of an organic, non crosslinked, cationic homopolymer or copolymer having a cationic charge density of from about 2 meq/gm to about 10 meq/gm and an average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 5,000,000; from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight, of a phase separation initiator selected from the group consisting of electrolytes, amphiphiles and mixtures thereof; and from about 50% to about 95%, by weight, of water.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nicholas William Geary, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mark Anthony Brown, Magda El-Nokaly
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Patent number: 6834847Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing scents into the environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the dispensing device is used in conjunction with an article of manufacture which contains one or more scents or aromatic materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Eric Richard Bartsch, Stephan Gary Bush, Brice Daniel Westring, Grover David Owens, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Michael Sean Farrell, Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Toan Trinh, Kevin George Goodall, Carl Eric Kaiser
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Patent number: 6833342Abstract: A method of deodorizing and/or reducing malodor in carpet comprises the step of contacting the carpet with a deodorizing composition comprising an effective amount of odor control agent. In a preferred embodiment, the deodorizing composition is a concentrated composition and the method comprises diluting the concentrated deodorizing composition to form a diluted deodorizing composition and using the diluted deodorizing composition in combination with a carpet extractor to deodorize the carpet. An article of manufacture for deodorizing carpet comprises a container, a deodorizing composition in the container, and a set of instructions in association with the container to communicate the benefits of the present methods and the uses of the present compositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Dean Larry DuVal, Kristin Marie Nichols, Steven Reece, Robert William Kiblinger, Daniel Scott Cobb, Hirotaka Uchiyama
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Patent number: 6785989Abstract: The present invention generally relates to devices, methods and product for removing wrinkles and smoothing fabric, especially articles of clothing, linen and drapery, using ultrasonic energy and an ultrasonic transmission fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paul Eugene Rienzo, Michael Joseph Orr, Brian Daniel Guzzi, Dean Larry DuVal, Jacqueline Nicole Ouellette
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Patent number: 6649155Abstract: Disclosed are shampoo compositions that provide a superior combination of anti-dandruff efficacy and conditioning, and a method of cleansing and conditioning the hair comprising applying to the hair an effective amount of said compositions. The anti-dandruff and conditioning shampoos comprise: (A) from about 5% to about 50%, by weight of the composition, of an anionic surfactant; (B) from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of a non-volatile conditioning agent; (C) from about 0.1% to about 4%, by weight of the composition, of an anti-dandruff particulate; (D) from about 0.02% to about 5%, by weight of the composition, of a cationic guar derivative; (i) wherein said cationic guar derivative has a molecular weight from about 50,000 to about 700,000; and (ii) wherein said cationic guar derivative has a charge density from about 0.05 meq/g to about 1.0 meq/g; and (E) water.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David Scott Dunlop, Vicente Eduardo Leyba
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Patent number: 6627184Abstract: Disclose are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions comprising from about 5% to about 50% by weight of an anionic detersive surfactant component selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants, zwitterionic or amphoteric surfactants having an attached group that is anionic at the pH of the composition, and combinations thereof, from about 0.025% to about 3% by weight of an organic, cationic, hair conditioning polymer, from about 0.05% to about 3% by weight of an organic, water-insoluble, polyalphaolefin conditioning polymer derived from 1-alkene monomers having from about 4 to about 16 carbon atoms, wherein the polyalphaolefin polymer has a viscosity of from about 1 to about 300 centipoise as measured at 40° C.; and from about 20% to about 94% by weight of water. The select polyalphaolefin polymers provide the shampoo composition with improved conditioning performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Everett Junior Inman
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Patent number: 6588964Abstract: A fluid applicator having a body with a fluid inlet in communication with a reservoir of fluid to be dispensed. The applicator further includes a plurality of applicator tines extending outwardly from an application area of the body, and the tines are at least partially flexible. Moreover, at least some of the tines include a fluid pathway. Additionally, the applicator further includes a handle portion generally above the application area. An actuator is located on the body adjacent the front end and generally above and off-center from the application area. The actuator is operably configured to selectively dispense a predetermined amount of fluid to the fluid pathways of the tines for accurate and consistent dispensing and application of the fluid to a target surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bob Wayne Au, Anne Marie Candido, Philip Davies, Mark Thomas Lund, Charles William Sears, Marc Walter Tanner
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Patent number: 6586223Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of subtilisin-like proteases having decreased immunogenicity relative to their corresponding wild-type proteases. More particularly, the present invention relates to variants having a modified amino acid sequence of a wild-type amino acid sequence, wherein the modified amino acid sequence comprises a substitution of one or more epitope regions. The invention further relates to mutant genes encoding such variants and cleaning and personal care compositions comprising such variants.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2000Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Ellen Sikorski, Donn Nelton Rubingh
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Patent number: 6569663Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of serine proteases having decreased immunogenicity relative to their corresponding wild-type proteases. More particularly, the present invention relates to variants having a modified amino acid sequence of a wild-type amino acid sequence, wherein the modified amino acid sequence comprises a substitution of one or more specifically identified positions corresponding to subtilisin BPN′. The invention further relates to mutant genes encoding such variants and cleaning and personal care compositions comprising such variants.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2000Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donn Nelton Rubingh, Elizabeth Ellen Sikorski, Paul Elliott Correa
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Patent number: D509731Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Makoto Isono, Nobuyuki Kitamura, Motoki Tamura
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Patent number: D510262Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Makoto Isono, Nobuyuki Kitamura, Motoki Tamura
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Patent number: D510263Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Makoto Isono, Nobuyuki Kitamura, Motoki Tamura
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Patent number: D513978Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2004Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Makoto Isono, Nobuyuki Kitamura, Motoki Tamura