Patents Represented by Attorney George W. Allen

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  • Non-sweating lipsticks
    Patent number: 5843407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipstick compositions which comprise wax, emollient and a gelling agent wherein the inclusion of the gelling agent facilitates the retention of emollient oils particularly under high humidity and temperatures. Lipsticks of the present invention contain moisturizers which may be delivered to the lips in a non-polar/lipophilic medium in a thermodynamically stable way by using associated structures. A method of making the lipstick is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Magda El-Nokaly, Michael Lee Vatter, David William Walling, Neil Campbell Leatherbury, Cheryl Lynn Peterson
  • Topical compositions for regulating the oily/shiny appearance of skin
    Patent number: 5833998
    Abstract: Disclosed are topical compositions for regulating the oily and/or shiny appearance of skin. The compositions contain:(a) an active for regulating the oily and/or shiny appearance of skin, said active consisting essentially of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of niacinamide, pyridoxine, panthenol, and pantothenic acid, in an amount that is safe and effective for regulating the oily and/or shiny appearance of the skin; and(b) a cosmetically acceptable carrier for said active. Also disclosed are methods of regulating the oily and/or shiny appearance of skin by topical application of such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Biedermann, Donald Lynn Bissett, George Endel Deckner
  • Personal care compositions
    Patent number: 5830447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions comprising a copolymer complex and a volatile, hydrophobic solvent component for solubilizing or dispersing the copolymer complex. The copolymer complex is formed by complexing a fatty acid with a copolymer, wherein the copolymer comprises a hydrophobic monomer, a hydrophilic monomer such that at least 1%, by weight of the total copolymer, comprises hydrophilic monomers bearing nitrogen containing functional groups and, optionally, a hydrophobic macromonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen Hutchins, Jose Antonio Carballada, Raymond Edward Bolich, Jr., Peter Marte Torgerson, Michael Albert Snyder, Mario Paul Clarizia
  • Stable photoprotective compositions
    Patent number: 5827508
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions which are useful for providing protection to the skin of humans from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. In particular the present invention relates to compositions having improved chemical, physical, and photostability. These compositions comprise from about 0.1% to about 10% of a dibenzoylmethane sunscreen compound, from about 0.1% to about 20% of a surface-treated zinc oxide, and a carrier suitable for application to the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Robert Tanner, Patricia Ritenour Hertz, Margaret Ann O'Donoghue, Christopher Irwin
  • Compositions for visually improving skin
    Patent number: 5821237
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to compositions which are useful for improving the visual appearance of skin, especially facial skin. The composition contains certain primary actives including at least one cyclic polyanionic polyols at least one sulfhydryl compound and at least one zwitterionic surfactant. The subject invention further relates to methods of improving the visual appearance of skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Lynn Bissett, Gerald Bruce Kasting, Kay Lesley Powers
  • Personal care compositions
    Patent number: 5804173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to personal care compositions comprising a copolymer complex and a volatile, hydrophobic solvent component for solubilizing or dispersing the copolymer complex. The copolymer complex is formed by complexing a fatty acid with a copolymer, wherein the copolymer comprises a hydrophobic monomer, a hydrophilic monomer such that at least 1%, by weight of the total copolymer, comprises hydrophilic monomers bearing nitrogen functional groups, and optionally a hydrophobic macromonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen Hutchins, Jose Antonio Carballada, Raymond Edward Bolich, Jr., Peter Marte Torgerson, Michael Albert Snyder, Mario Paul Clarizia
  • Perfume delivery systems in liquid personal cleansing compositions
    Patent number: 5804538
    Abstract: Liquid personal cleansing compositions which provide enhanced perfume deposition on the skin and which provide increased on-skin fragrance longevity. The liquid personal cleansing compositions contain from about 0.5% to about 5% of a cationic material, from about 1% to about 80% of an anionic surfactant, from about 0.01 to about 5% of a volatile perfume, and water. The ratio of cationic polymer to the anionic surfactant ranges from about 1:15 to about 1:5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Shiqing Wei, Louis Fay Wong, Mark Richard Sine, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Toan Trinh
  • Personal cleansing system comprising a polymeric diamond-mesh bath sponge and a liquid cleanser with moisturizer
    Patent number: 5804539
    Abstract: A system for cleansing the skin comprises a hydrophobic diamond-mesh sponge and a liquid cleansing and moisturizing composition with excellent lather in the same washing and rinsing operation. The system provides improved lather and overall acceptability for mild liquid cleansing compositions which contain moisturizers and especially for those which would otherwise have marginal lather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gail Gordon, Cheryl Oram Schoenberg, Lisa Catherine Winder
  • Compositions for regulating skin wrinkles and/or skin atrophy
    Patent number: 5804572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Roy Lonnie Blank, Darrell Gene Doughty, Carlos Gabriel Linares
  • Personal cleansing compositions
    Patent number: 5785979
    Abstract: The compositions of the present invention relate to improved personal cleansing compositions comprising a surfactant system, from above about 0.1% to below 1% of a nonionic or anionic water soluble polymer, a phase separation initiator and water. These compositions provide improved lathering and conditioning benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Robert Lee Wells
  • Anti-tarnishing machine dishwashing detergent compositions containing a paraffin oil
    Patent number: 5776874
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent composition containing from 1% to 80% by weight of a detergent builder compound; from 0.005% to 2,5% by weight of a paraffin oil; an oxygen-releasing bleaching agent such that the level of available oxygen in the composition measured according to the method herein is from 0.3% to 2.5% wherein the rate of release of said available oxygen is such that the available oxygen is completely released from the composition in a time interval of from 3.5 minutes to 10.0 minutes, using the test protocol described in the present description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fiona Susan MacBeath, Lynda Anne Jones, John Christopher Turner
  • Liquid detergent composition containing lipase and protease
    Patent number: 5733473
    Abstract: Liquid detergent compositions are disclosed which contain conventional detergency ingredients and an enzyme system, wherein the enzyme system comprises a mixture of a lipase, or mixtures thereof, and a modified bacterial serine protease, or mixtures of said proteases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: James Pyott Johnston, Pierre Marie Alain Lenoir, Christiaan Arthur J. K. Thoen
  • Process for manufacture of a high active detergent composition containing succinic acid
    Patent number: 5719116
    Abstract: A process for making a concentrated liquid detergent composition comprising the steps of: i) mixing succinic anhydride, water and an alkaline catalyst, wherein the ratio of succinic anhydride to water is at least 4:1; ii) allowing an exothermic hydrolysis reaction to take place in a buffer tank, and iii) mixing the resulting highly active, partly neutralised succinic acid with other detergent ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Noel Alfons-Gustaaf Vanweissenaers, Luc Marie Willy Lievens
  • Monomeric rich silicate system in automatic dishwashing composition with improved glass etching
    Patent number: 5703027
    Abstract: Automatic dishwashing detergent compositions comprising a certain combination of metasilicate with other silicate (polymeric) components are disclosed. Particularly preferred compositions also comprise low foaming surfactant and detergency builders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Stephen Caravajal, Janet Layne Marshall
  • High sudsing light duty liquid or gel dishwashing detergent compositions containing long chain amine oxide
    Patent number: 5698505
    Abstract: Light duty liquid or gel dishwashing detergent compositions which exhibit good grease emulsification performance comprise detergent surfactants and high amounts of long chain amine oxide. A preferred embodiment additionally contains suds boosters and divalent ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kofi Ofosu-Asante
  • Process for making automatic dishwashing composition containing diacyl peroxide
    Patent number: 5663133
    Abstract: Automatic dishwashing detergent compositions comprising a diacyl peroxide particle are disclosed. The diacyl peroxide particles are premixed with dispersing agent prior to the addition of other automatic dishwashing detergent ingredients. The dispersing agent is selected from the group consisting of surfactants, dispersant polymers and mixtures thereof. The compositions are effective in removing carotenoid stains from plastics and tea stains from china under various temperature and pH conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alan S. Goldstein
  • Stable liquid detergent compositions comprising a dispersible silicone-based suds suppressor system
    Patent number: 5648327
    Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous liquid detergent compositions comprising dispersed particles of a silicone-based suds suppressor system and a separately added moderately hydrophobic particulate silica stabilizing agent. Such a separately added stabilizing agent serves to retard coalescence and coagulation of the suds suppressor particles and thus enhances the storage stability of the suds suppressor-containing detergent compositions of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Smerznak, Roger J. Jones, Athanasios Surutzidis, Andrew A. Fisk, Steven P. Christiano, Gregory G. Bausch, Lauren M. Tonge, Sharon K. McCoy, Elizabeth F. Mallen
  • Machine dishwashing detergents containing an oxygen bleach and an anti-tarnishing mixture of a paraffin oil and sequestrant
    Patent number: 5646101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a machine dishwashing composition containingfrom 1% to 80% of a detergent builder component other than carbonatefrom 0% to 9%, preferably 0% to 5%, most preferred 0% of alkali-metal carbonate or bicarbonate saltan oxygen-releasing bleaching agent such that the level of available oxygen measured according to the method herein is from 0.3 to 1.7, preferably 0.5 to 1.2,from 0.05% to 2.5%, preferably 0.1% to 0.6% of a paraffin oil, the rate of release of oxygen being preferably also controlled; the present invention also encompasses a process for making such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Fiona Susan MacBeath
  • Stable foam-controlled liquid detergent compositions
    Patent number: 5643862
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antifoam agent for inclusion in a detergent composition in liquid form, comprising a silicone antifoam compound, a surfactant-containing solution and a particulate stabilizing aid. The present invention also provides detergent compositions comprising said antifoam agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Roger Jeffery Jones, Athanasios Surutzidis, Walter Broeckx, Andrew Albon Fisk
  • Concentrated liquid detergent composition comprising an alkyl ether sulphate and a process for making the composition
    Patent number: 5635466
    Abstract: A concentrated aqueous surfactant solution comprising alkyl ether sulphate and alkaline earth metal, preferably magnesium. The composition is a stable liquid which is suitable for making into cleaning products, especially dish washing liquids. The concentrated surfactant solution can be prepared by partial neutralisation of the acid precursor with the hydroxide or oxide of the alkaline earth metal, followed by a further neutralisation with the hydroxide of an alkali metal or ammonium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Allan Burdon, Katherine J. Cope, Wendy Coppenrath, Guy Stasino, Brian E. Talkes, Stefano Zenezini