Patents Represented by Attorney C. Brant Cook

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  • Detergent composition comprising zeolite and amylase enzyme
    Patent number: 6440922
    Abstract: A detergent composition comprises a zeolite builder having a particle size, expressed as a d50 value, of less than 1.0 micrometers, an amylase enzyme, and an alkoxylated nonionic surfactant having a hydrophilic lipophilic balance value of less than 9.5 selected from the group consisting of alkoxylated adducts of fatty alcohols containing an average of less than 5 alkylene oxide groups per molecule. The detergent composition has been found to reduce white residue formation on fabrics washed with detergent containing small particle size zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Carolyn Jayne Garnett, Jonathan Richard Clare, Johan Juliaan Serafin Wauben
  • Enzymatic cleaning compositions
    Patent number: 6440911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions a mannanase and a carbohydrase selected from cellulases, amylases, pectin degrading enzymes and/or xyloglucanases. These compositions provide superior cleaning performance, i.e. superior stain removal, dingy cleaning and whiteness maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Conny Erna-Alice Joos
  • Branched surfactant manufacture
    Patent number: 6433207
    Abstract: Alpha-olefins are dimerized to form branched-chain feedstocks for detersive surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Detersive enzyme particles having water-soluble carboxylate barrier layer and compositions including same
    Patent number: 6432902
    Abstract: A particle for detersive enzymes is disclosed by way of the present invention. The particle comprises a composite particle suitable for incorporation into a detergent composition comprising an enzyme containing core material and a water soluble carboxylate barrier layer coated on the enzyme containing core material. The preferred enzymes are protease enzymes. Automatic dishwashing compositions employing the particle are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Melissa D. Aquino, Peter Robert Foley, Lynda Anne Speed, Xiaoqing Song, Glenn Steven Ward, Douglas A. Dale
  • Apparatus and process for plasma treatment of particulate matter
    Patent number: 6428861
    Abstract: A process for plasma treatment of particulate matter, and more particularly, an apparatus for plasma induced graft polymerization of particulate matter in a continuous or semi-continuous manner, and a process for plasma induced graft polymerization of particulate matter in a continuous or semi-continuous manner is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Amaat France, Arseni V. Radomyselski, Saswati Datta
  • O-substituted N,N-diacylhydroxylamine bleach activators and compositions employing the same
    Patent number: 6423676
    Abstract: N,N diacyl O-substituted imide bleach activators and compositions employing them are provided. The activators have the general formula: wherein X is selected from O, NR16 and S; e is 0 or 1; f is 0 or 1; R16 is selected from H and C1-C4 linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkyl groups; and R1 is preferably phenyl or C7-C13 linear or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated alkyl; R2 is preferably C1-C10 branched or unbranched, saturated or unsaturated alkyl and R3 is preferably C1-C12 linear or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated alkyl. Bleach additive and bleaching compositions including the bleach activators and methods of cleaning fabrics are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Robert Richard Dykstra
  • Detergent compositions comprising a mannanase and a bleach system
    Patent number: 6420331
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a mannasase enzyme and a bleach system preferably comprising a source of hydrogen peroxide and optionally, but preferably, a hydrophobic bleach activator for superior cleaning, stain removal and/or whiteness performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Michael Stanford Showell, André Cesar Baeck, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
  • Bleaching compositions
    Patent number: 6416687
    Abstract: Bleaching compositions are disclosed which comprise a fabric protective system capable of esterifying the hydroxyl groups of a fabric and a bleach. A method of treating fabrics with such a composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrea Agostini, Oreste Todini
  • Laundry detergent and/or fabric care compositions comprising a modified transferase
    Patent number: 6410498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified enzyme which comprises a catalytically active amino acid sequence of a transferase linked to an amino acid sequence comprising a Cellulose Binding Domain (CBD). The present invention further relates to laundry detergent and/or fabric care compositions comprising such modified enzyme, for improved fabric care and cleaning benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Michael Stanford Showell, Stanton Lane Boyer, André Christian Convents
  • Laundry detergent compositions with amino acid based polymers to provide appearance and integrity benefits to fabrics laundered therewith
    Patent number: 6407053
    Abstract: Modified polyaspartic acids are obtained by polycondensing (a) 1 to 99.9 mol % aspartic acid with (b) 99 to 0.1 mol % fatty acids, polybasic carboxylic acids, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, polybasic hydroxycarboxylic acids, monobasic poly-hydroxycarboxylic acids, alcohols, amines, alkoxylated alcohols and amines, amino sugars, carbohydrates, sugar carboxylic acids and/or non-proteinogenic aminocarboxylic acids, or by polymerizing monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of polyaspartic acids, in the manner of radically initiated graft copolymerization. Also disclosed is a process for preparing these modified polyaspartic acids, as well as the use of these modified polyaspartic acids as additives to washing and cleaning agents, as water conditioning agents and as deposit inhibitors during the condensation of sugar juice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sherri Lynn Randall, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Bernhard Mohr, Dieter Boeckh
  • Bleach compositions containing metal bleach catalyst, and bleach activators and/or organic percarboxylic acids
    Patent number: 6399557
    Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) an effective amount, preferably from about 0.0001% to about 99.9%, more typically from about 0.1% to about 25%, of a bleach activator and/or organic percarboxylic acid; (b) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (c) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts in combination with bleach activators and/or organic percarboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Michael Eugene Burns
  • Fatty acids, soaps, surfactant systems, and consumer products based on branched 17-carbon fatty acids
    Patent number: 6395701
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Pro-fragrance linear acetals and ketals
    Patent number: 6395695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fragrance delivery system for use in laundry detergent compositions including rinse-added and dryer-added fabric conditioning compositions which provides a long lasting “freshness” or “clean” scent to fabric. The compositions described herein deliver highly fabric substantive linear acetal and/or ketal pro-fragrances to the fabric surface during laundering wherein the pro-fragrances release their fragrance raw materials over a period of up to two weeks. The present invention also relates a method for delivering a pleasurable scent to fabric which has a lasting freshness quality by contacting the fabric with a laundry detergent composition which comprises the fragrance-releasable pro-fragrances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mark Robert Sivik
  • Carpet stain removal product which uses sonic or ultrasonic waves
    Patent number: 6391061
    Abstract: A carpet stain removal product and process are disclosed. The product includes a liquid cleaning composition (18) which contains water, an organic solvent and a surfactant, an absorbent stain receiver, and a sonic or ultrasonic wave generating source (10) for imparting sonic or ultrasonic waves onto stains (14) on textiles (16). The sonic or ultrasonic wave source is, for example, a hand-held, pen-shaped device with a directed point to focus the sonic or ultrasonic waves at the stain to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Hortel, Nagabhusan Senapati
  • Bleach compositions
    Patent number: 6387862
    Abstract: Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (b) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daryle Hadley Busch, Simon Robert Collinson, Timothy Jay Hubin, Christopher Mark Perkins, Regine Labeque, Barbara Kay Williams, James Pyott Johnston, David Johnathan Kitko, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Michael Eugene Burns
  • Garment conditioning composition
    Patent number: 6384005
    Abstract: A conditioning composition for garments to be used before or after conventional washing and drying operations is disclosed. The compositions are suitable for conditioning dry clean only garments. The composition is an aqueous mixture containing a garment conditioning agent wherein the mixture has a fluid viscosity of from about 1 cps to about 100 cps and a fluid surface tension of from about 20 dynes/cm to about 55 dynes/cm. The conditioning composition is in fog form to improve composition deposition on the garments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-man Woo, Donald Scott Adams, Bruce Albert Yeazell, Daniel Scott Cobb, Jacqueline Marie Duderstadt, Stephen Gary Bush
  • Non-aqueous liquid detergent compositions containing ethoxylated quaternized amine clay compounds
    Patent number: 6384008
    Abstract: Non-aqueous, particulate-containing heavy duty liquid laundry detergent compositions that are in the form of a stable suspension of particulate material, essentially including from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight of the detergent composition of an ethoxylated quaternized amine clay material. These compositions preferably include a peroxygen bleaching agent and an organic detergent builder, dispersed in a liquid phase preferably structured with a surfactant. Such compositions provide especially desirable cleaning and bleaching of fabrics laundered therewith and also exhibit especially desirable aesthetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Diane Parry
  • Garment stain removal product which uses sonic or ultrasonic waves
    Patent number: 6376444
    Abstract: A garment stair removal product and process is disclosed. The product includes a liquid cleaning composition which contains water, an organic solvent and a surfactant, an absorbent stain receiver, and a sonic or ultrasonic wave generating source for imparting sonic or ultrasonic waves onto stains on textiles. The sonic or ultrasonic wave source is, for example, a hand-held, pen-shaped device with a directed point to focus the sonic or ultrasonic waves at the stain to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Hortel, Nagabhusan Senapati
  • Liquid detergent compositions comprising polymeric suds enhancers
    Patent number: 6372708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid detergent compositions comprising a polymeric material which is a suds enhancer and a suds volume extender, said compositions having increased effectiveness for preventing re-deposition of grease during hand washing. The polymeric material which are suitable as suds volume and suds endurance enhancers comprise an effective amount of a polymeric suds stabilizer comprise: i) units capable of having a cationic charge at a pH of from about 4 to about 12; provided that said suds stabilizer has an average cationic charge density from about 0.0005 to about 0.05 units per 100 daltons molecular weight at a pH of from about 4 to about 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chandrika Kasturi, Michael Gayle Schafer, Mark Robert Sivik, Bernard William Kluesener, William Michael Scheper
  • Multi-compartment container
    Patent number: D457064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Anne-Gaëlle Leray, Jean François Patrick Etesse