Patents Represented by Attorney C. Brant Cook
  • Patent number: 8088843
    Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble company
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: 8080489
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to pre-moistened webs and wipes having visible compressed sites that provide the perception of a cloth-like texture. The disclosure also relates to a nonwoven web made of non-thermoplastic fibers with at least one compressed site on the surface of the web that remains visible when the web is pre-moistened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jonathan Paul Brennan
  • Patent number: 8071203
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: 8056841
    Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant is provided. The method includes the step of contacting the trichome-bearing plant with a device such that the trichome is separated from the epidermis of the trichome-bearing plant. The device can be a mill device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
  • Patent number: 8057636
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, especially fibrous structures that exhibit softness and strength, sanitary tissue products employing such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided. More particularly, fibrous structures that have a long fiber furnish that comprises less than 10% by weight of fibers having a coarseness of less than 20 mg/100 m, sanitary tissue products employing such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Eric James Watkins, Dale Gary Kavalew
  • Patent number: 8049004
    Abstract: Processes for making ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Stephen Wayne Heinzman
  • Patent number: 8034463
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Wet Burst of greater than 30 g as measured according to the Wet Burst Test Method and that may also exhibit a Geometric Mean (“GM”) Modulus and/or CD Modulus of less than 1320 at 15 g/cm and/or less than 875 at 15 g/cm as measured according to the Modulus Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Angela Marie Leimbach, Michael Scott Prodoehl, John Allen Manifold
  • Patent number: 8034215
    Abstract: Patterned fibrous structures, more particularly to fibrous structures that comprise a pattern that conveys to a user a characteristic of the fibrous structure and/or single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising such a patterned fibrous structure and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Patent number: 8025966
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Geometric Mean Elongation of greater than 15.8% as measured according to the Elongation Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch, Robert Lenord Powers, Christopher Gerald Donner
  • Patent number: 7989058
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 360 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and optionally, a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2450 g/76.2 mm and/or a Machine Direction (MD) Dry Tensile of less than 1520 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean (GM) Total Dry Tensile of less than 1180 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Patent number: 7972986
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that greater than about 40% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structure exists in pores of radii of from about 121 ?m to about 200 ?m, and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Patent number: 7960453
    Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Patent number: D641173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Kreider, Rachael Eden Walther, Rebecca Kathleen Pagels
  • Patent number: D642381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rachael Eden Walther, Jason Merrill Jones, John Allen Manifold, Douglas Jay Barkey, Ted Alan Monnin, Brandy Nicole Lockaby
  • Patent number: D645258
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Compay
    Inventor: Alexander Paul Weber
  • Patent number: D646900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Inventors: Nicholas August Vitucci, Naomi Ruth Nelson, Rebecca Kathleen Pagels, Jason Merrill Jones
  • Patent number: D650997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Sara Elizabeth Gordon
  • Patent number: D651410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jeremy Howard Nugent
  • Patent number: D652632
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas August Vitucci, Naomi Ruth Nelson, Rebecca Kathleen Pagels, Jason Merrill Jones
  • Patent number: D652634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Angela Marie Leimbach, John Allen Manifold