Patents Represented by Attorney C. Brant Cook

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  • Acacia fiber-containing fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 7820874
    Abstract: Multi-layered fibrous structures comprising hardwood pulp fibers that are present in the outer layers of the fibrous structures at differing weight percents, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided. More particularly, the present invention relates to multi-layered fibrous structures comprising Acacia fibers that are present in the outer layers of the fibrous structures at differing weight percents, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Kenneth Douglas Vinson
  • Embossed fibrous structures
    Patent number: 7811665
    Abstract: Embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and more particularly to embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2375 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean Total Dry Tensile of less than 1130 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Compmany
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Individualized trichomes and products employing same
    Patent number: 7811613
    Abstract: Individualized trichomes, methods for individualizing trichomes, chemical derivatives of individualized trichomes, trichome-containing fibrous structures, single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures and sanitary tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
  • Fibrous structure comprising an oil system
    Patent number: 7811951
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising an oil system, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products are provided. More particularly, fibrous structures comprising an oil system comprising a non-silicone oil comprising a triglyceride having a fatty acid profile containing a palmitic acid content of greater than about 15 wt %, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kenneth Douglas Vinson
  • Clothlike non-woven fibrous structures and processes for making same
    Patent number: 7789994
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, more particularly non-woven fibrous structures that exhibit properties that consumers associate with cloths, sanitary tissue products incorporating such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Hupp, Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers
    Patent number: 7772391
    Abstract: Ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers, processes for making ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers, and uses of ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Stephen Wayne Heinzman
  • Extracting biopolymers from a biomass using ionic liquids
    Patent number: 7763715
    Abstract: Methods for using ionic liquids to extract and separate a biopolymer from a biomass containing the biopolymer are disclosed. Methods for dissolving a biopolymer in an ionic liquid are also disclosed. A recovery solvent is used to reduce the solubility of the biopolymer in the ionic liquid and conventional separation techniques are used to recover the biopolymer. Biopolymers encompassed by this invention include chitin, chitosan, elastin, collagen, keratin and polyhydroxyalkanoate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stacie Ellen Hecht, Raymond Louis Niehoff, Karunakaran Narasimhan, Charles William Neal, Paul Arlen Forshey, Dean Van Phan, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, Katherine Helen Combs
  • Method for making polymeric structures
    Patent number: 7754119
    Abstract: Polymeric structures, methods for making same, fibrous structures comprising same and fibrous product incorporating same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, David Warren Loebker, Larry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Ryan Richards, Fred J. Keck
  • Fibrous structures comprising a tuft
    Patent number: 7754050
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising a tuft. More particularly, the present invention relates to fibrous structures comprising at least two chemically different compositions wherein less than all of the chemically different compositions present in the fibrous structures forms a tuft, and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter + Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Lois Jean Forde-Kohler, Kevin Benson McNeil, Matthew Todd Hupp, Gregory William Duritsch
  • Tissue paper
    Patent number: 7749355
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a tissue product comprising one or more tissue plies and having a total tensile value of less than about 1300 grams per inch, a Bulk300 of greater than about 13.5 cm3/g, and a caliper stability of greater than about 50%. The present invention also provides for a tissue product comprising at least three plies. The tissue product has a total tensile value of less than about 1300 grams per inch, a Bulk300 greater than about 11 cm3/g, and a caliper stability greater than 50%. The present invention further provides for a tissue product comprising as least two plies. The tissue product has a total tensile value of less than about 1300 grams per inch, a Bulk300 of greater than about 7.0 cm3/g, and a caliper stability of greater than about 83%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Robert Stanley Ampulski, Knut Petersen
  • Method for making polymeric structures
    Patent number: 7744791
    Abstract: Polymeric structures, methods for making same, fibrous structures comprising same and fibrous product incorporating same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Paul Dennis Trokhan, David Warren Loebker
  • Polymeric structures comprising a hydrophile/lipophile system
    Patent number: 7714065
    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: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil MacKey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • Starch fiber
    Patent number: 7704328
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a starch composition comprising starch, a polymer that is substantially compatible with starch and has a weight-average molecular weight of at least 500,000 such that the polymer forms effective entanglements or associations with neighboring starch molecules, and preferably at least one additive to improve melt flow and melt processability. The additive may be a hydroxyl plasticizer, a hydroxyl-free plasticizer, a diluent, or mixtures thereof. The composition is melt processable on conventional thermoplastic equipment. The composition is especially suitable for uniaxial and biaxial extensional processes to make fibers, films, foams and like products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Valerie Ann Bailey, Larry Neil Mackey, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Fibrous structures
    Patent number: 7704601
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a cross machine direction total energy absorption (CDTEA) of greater than 8 cm-g/cm2 as measured according to the TEA Test Method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Temporary wet strength additives
    Patent number: 7691233
    Abstract: Temporary wet strength additives, more particularly, temporary wet strength additives comprising a polymer backbone, wherein the polymer backbone has an internal homo-crosslinking monomeric unit, a co-crosslinking monomeric unit and a cationic monomeric unit, wherein the homo-crosslinking monomeric unit is derived from a monomer having the following structure: and X is —O—,—NH—, or —NCH3—; and R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic groups; and Y3 is —H, —CH3, or a halogen, fibrous structures including such temporary wet strength additives, sanitary tissue products containing such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures and/or such sanitary tissue product are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Lee Barcus, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi, Angela Marie Leimbach, Stephen Robert Kelly
  • Individualized seed hairs and products employing same
    Patent number: 7691472
    Abstract: Individualized seed hairs, methods for individualizing seed hairs, chemical derivatives of individualized seed hairs, seed hair-containing soft fibrous structures, single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures and sanitary tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D617994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rachael Eden Walther, Lisa Ann Mackay, Thorsten Knobloch, Kathleen Diane Drott, Sara Elizabeth Gordon, John Russell Klein, Jr., Brandy Nicole Lockaby, Oliver John Meinerding, Jonathan Seeds
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D618462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joshua Thomas Fung, Ashley Lynn Kuntz, Kevin Mitchell Wiwi
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D624756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rachael Eden Walther, Joshua Thomas Fung, Ashley Lynn Kuntz, Luis Bernardo de la Rosa
  • Paper product
    Patent number: D625111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Edward Carrier, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Jennifer Hope Dolan