Patents Represented by Attorney James F. McBride
  • Patent number: 8299010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thiazolium dyes, laundry care compositions comprising one or more thiazolium dyes, processes of making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using same. The dyes, compositions and methods of the present invention are advantageous in providing improved hueing of fabric, including whitening of white fabric, while avoiding significant build up of bluing dyes on the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mu-ill Lim, Manuela Javet, Cecile Pasquier, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Eduardo Torres, Laurent D Keiken, Patrick D Moore, Dominick J Valenti, Robert L Mahaffey
  • Patent number: 8288332
    Abstract: Fabric conditioning compositions such as those that are typically provided to the consumer in liquid form are disclosed. The fabric care conditioning composition is in the form of a porous, dissolvable substrate. The substrate comprises diester quaternary ammonium compound, water soluble polymer and Remaining Water. The substrate may take any number of suitable shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Renae Dianna Fossum, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Heather Anne Doria, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 8278230
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume systems and consumer products comprising new perfumes and/or such perfume systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume systems and consumer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, David Thomas Stanton, Rafael Trujillo Rosaldo, Allan Campbell McRitchie, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Thierry Granier, Andreas Hanhart, Jerzy A. Bajgrowicz, Philip Kraft
  • Patent number: 8263543
    Abstract: The present composition relates to fabric care compositions comprising an organosiloxane polymer. Methods of using such compositions including contacting a fabric with the composition and rinsing the fabric are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Bernard William Kluesener, Iskender Yilgor, Christian Herzig, Richard Becker, Rafael Trujillo Rosaldo, Leslie Dawn Waits, Janine A. Flood, Keith Homer Baker, Jennifer Beth Ponder, Mark Gregory Solinsky, Matthew Scott Wagner, Pradipta Sarkar, Emily Suzanne Klinker, Julie Ann O'Neil
  • Patent number: 8247364
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael A Valenti, Laurent D Kieken, Xiayong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J Valenti, Patrick D Moore, Leonard J Starks
  • Patent number: 8188027
    Abstract: A fabric enhancer composition comprising a di-hydrocarbyl complex formed from a mono-hydrocarbyl quaternary ammonium component comprising the structure: wherein R1 comprises a C6-C18 hydrocarbyl chain, wherein R2, R3 and R4 are individually selected from the group consisting of C1-C4 hydrocarbyl, C1-C4 hydroxy hydrocarbyl, —(CH2CH2O)xH where x has a value from about 1 to about 2, and mixtures thereof, L is a linking group selected from the group consisting of C(O)O—, —(CH2CH2O)n—, —C(O)—, [CH2CH(CH2)O] and n has value of 1 to 2 with z having a value of 0 or 1, and an anionic surfactant, wherein the fabric enhancer composition provides sufficient softness and anti-static benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Lawrence Lynch, Yonas Gizaw, Thomas Edward Kodger, Lois Jean Boekley, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 8183199
    Abstract: A fabric softener composition, comprising 1% to 49% by weight of a bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium methylsulphate fatty acid ester having a molar ratio of fatty acid moieties to amine moieties of from 1.85 to 1.99, wherein the average chain length of the fatty acid moieties is from 16 to 18 carbon atoms and the iodine value of the fatty acid moieties, calculated for the free fatty acid, is from 0.5 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Renae Dianna Fossum, Jose Andres Rojo Moreno, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere, Kevin Lee Kott, Hans-Jurgen Kohle, Ulrike Kottke, Harald Jakob
  • Patent number: 8173589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to low energy (e.g., below 1 J/ml) methods of making pearlescent liquid fabric softener compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Elizabeth Culver, Jeffrey Frank Omnitz, Francesc Corominas, Connie Lynn Sheets
  • Patent number: 8158572
    Abstract: Household care compositions having a linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyether copolymers with amino and/or quaternary ammonium groups, obtainable by the reaction of organopolysiloxanes functionalized with secondary aminoalkyl groups with the reaction products formed from compounds containing epoxy groups and amines, the use thereof and process for preparation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Wilfried Knott, Michael Ferenz, Klaus-Dieter Klein, Tobias Maurer, Ralph Scheuermann, Bernard William Kluesener, Rajan Keshav Panadiker
  • Patent number: 8080513
    Abstract: A mixture, apparatus, and method is provided for formulating, solidifying, packaging, shipping, and reprocessing laundry active for purposes of providing laundry active product to developing markets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jerry Keith McGinnis, Alessandro Corona, III, Darren Franklin King
  • Patent number: D650685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, David Martin Haller
  • Patent number: D657255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, David Martin Haller
  • Patent number: D657256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, David Martin Haller
  • Patent number: D657678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Heidel, Ian Andrew Carnduff, Paul Frank Diehl
  • Patent number: D660166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Liam Davis Hawry, Scott Michael Jost, Luke Anthony Snider, Jacob Joel Teitelbaum
  • Patent number: D660167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, David Martin Haller
  • Patent number: D660713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, David Martin Haller
  • Patent number: D661593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Heidel, Ian Andrew Carnduff, Paul Frank Diehl
  • Patent number: D669789
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stacy Leigh Jackson, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Andrew Peter Heidel, Paul Frank Diehl
  • Patent number: D672247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Kreider, Stacy Leigh Jackson, Andrew Peter Heidel, Nadja Dionne Frazier