Patents Represented by Attorney John G. Powell
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Patent number: 8344202Abstract: An acquisition member for use in disposable absorbent articles. The acquisition member including a multitude of fibers and a latex binder and having a void volume of at least 7 cubic centimeter per gram in the temperature range from 20° C. to 40° C. The latex binder may be a dispersion of a polymer in an essentially aqueous medium. The polymer is capable of forming a film having a tan ? value at 40° C. that is not greater than its tan ? value at 20° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Manuela Schneider, Christofer Fuchs, Olaf van Gansewinkel
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Patent number: 8313792Abstract: A method for improving the barrier properties of a material. The method includes providing a material, applying a hydrophobic surface coating thereto, and incorporating the material into an absorbent article. The hydrophobic surface coating includes a non-aqueous, solventless, multicomponent silicone composition. The hydrophobic surface coating may be substantially free of aminosilicones.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Johannson Jimmy Tee, Jr., Kemal Vatansever Catalan
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Patent number: 8267036Abstract: An apparatus for printing active materials, such as adhesives, onto articles, such as absorbent articles or release paper, using a coater with a multitude of applicators. The applicators coat a surface (roll) with a multitude of beads of the active material. The apparatus also includes a specific coating blade, which contacts the surface with the active material at a certain angle and thereby coats the surface even better.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andrea Branca, Claudio Gemmiti, Julian Ashton Plumley, David Sarro, Domenico Esposito
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Patent number: 8245876Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing wipes that includes an extendable orifice. The orifice is extendable into the storage space of the wipes container to position an opening in close proximity with the top of a stack of wipes stored in the container. The extendable orifice may also act to reduce moisture loss in the case of wet-wipes and reduce the occurrence of fall-back.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Debra Gay Gehring, Mario Alonso, Angela C. Oehlerking, Catherine Lazar Odell, Paul Francis O'Connor, Christine Lee Enderby, David R. Knaub
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Patent number: 8236715Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent structure suitable in, or being an adult or infant diaper or feminine hygiene article, comprising a water-absorbing material comprising water-absorbing particles that comprise a film coating, comprising an elastic film-forming polymer and a coalescing agent. The invention also relates to an absorbent structure comprising a water absorbent material obtainable by a process of: a) spray-coating water-absorbing polymeric particles with an elastic film-forming polymer in a fluidized bed reactor at a temperature in the range from 0° C. to 150° C. and b) heat-treatment of the coated polymeric particles at a temperature above 50° C., wherein in step a) and/or b) a coalescing agent is added.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Jean-Philippe Marie Autran, Ulrich Riegel, Thomas Daniel, Stefan Bruhns, Mark Elliott, Karl Haeberle
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Patent number: 8168210Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pressed powder cosmetic composition, comprising by weight: (a) from about 75% to about 98% of a powder component, the powder component comprising a cosmetic grade flaky glass constituted of components comprising by weight at least 52% silicone dioxide and no more than 5% alkali metal oxide, and wherein the cosmetic grade flaky glass has an average thickness of 0.1-1.0 ?m, an average particle diameter of 1-100 ?m, and an aspect ratio, obtained by dividing the average particle diameter by the average thickness, of 10 or higher; (b) from about 1% to about 24% of a powder binder, the powder binder comprising sodium stearyl fumarate; and (c) from about 1% to about 25% of a liquid binder.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Kazunori Ogami
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Patent number: 8168095Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention, a process is provided for the preparation of amorphous particles comprising a homogeneous distribution of one or more dyes encapsulated by an amorphous, siliceous encapsulating agent, the process comprising: (a) providing a precursor of the encapsulating agent in liquid form; (b) providing the one or more dyes in liquid form; (c) mixing the liquid forms; (d) aerosolizing the mixture to form droplets comprising the one or more dyes and encapsulating agent; and (e) heating the droplets to form the particles comprising the one or more dyes encapsulated by the siliceous encapsulating agent; wherein at least one of the liquid forms provided is aqueous and the or each aqueous liquid form is acidic. According to a second aspect of the invention, encapsulated dyes made by the process of the first aspect of the invention are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Carl Anders Alberius, Robert William Corkery
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Patent number: 8137746Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for making solid, typically particulate, water-swellable material comprising coated water-swellable, preferably hydrogel-forming polymers, which are coated with a coating agent, which is such that it does not rupture when the polymers swell in a liquid, e.g., water or saline water. Hereto, the coating agent is extensible in wet state and comprises thereto a wet-extensible material that has a tensile stress at break in the wet state of at least 1 MPa. Typically, the coating agent comprises thereto an elastomeric polymeric material. The invention also relates to solid (particulate) water-swellable material obtainable by the process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Stephen Allen Goldman, Michael Divo, Edward Joseph Urankar
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Patent number: 8114059Abstract: An absorbent article is provided having opposite longitudinal sides and opposite lateral ends therebetween. The absorbent article comprises a topsheet, backsheet, and an absorbent core comprising about 60 percent superabsorbent polymer material between the topsheet and backsheet. The article has front and back waist regions, and a crotch region therebetween. A barrier cuff strip extends longitudinally from front to back waist regions along the topsheet and includes front and back ends and proximal and distal edges connecting the front and back ends. The distal edge is attached at a cuff end bond region having an outer bond edge and an inner bond edge spaced longitudinally from the outer bond edge. A longitudinal distance from the inner bond edge to the laterally extending side at the one of the front and back waist regions is about ½ or more of a longitudinal length of the front or back waist regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Andrew James Sauer, Donald Carroll Roe
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Patent number: 8114022Abstract: Business method for generating advertising claims by utilizing Confocal Raman Spectroscopy (CRS) for dermatological studies. The methods of the invention can be carried in vitro (either artificial skin or a sample of skin) or in vivo (directly on the human skin of a person).Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jonathan Mark Crowther, Anke Sieg, Paul Jonathan Matts, Peter Blenkiron
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Patent number: 8094879Abstract: A tool including a frame that includes an aperture and a boundary marker disposed about the aperture. The boundary marker includes a first marker region disposed about the aperture and a second marker region disposed about the first marker region. The color of the first marker region is different from the color of the second marker region. The tool also includes a color correction scale disposed proximate to the aperture. The color correction scale has at least a first color correction region and a second color correction region. The color of the first and second color correction regions each have an LCh value of between L=73.5 C=15.3 h=55.6 and L=32.5 C=11.6 h=48.3.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Karen Kalla, Patricia Alison LaFleur, Joseph Miller, Grover Owens
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Patent number: 8080705Abstract: The present invention relates to superabsorbent polymer particles with improved surface cross-linking and their use in absorbent articles. Superabsorbent polymers of the invention comprise polymer chain segments, wherein at least a part of these polymer chain segments are cross-linked to each other through direct covalent bonds. Moreover, the invention relates to a process for making these superabsorbent polymer particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2005Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andreas Flohr, Torsten Lindner
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Patent number: 8066015Abstract: A mascara system comprising, in combination: (a) a mascara applicator comprising a substantially longitudinal stem having a major axis A and a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom, wherein at least two adjacent protrusions are spaced from one another at a distance R at the base of the stem; (b) a mascara composition comprising primary particles that are at least about 5 microns in equivalent diameter; and (c) a dermatologically acceptable carrier. The mascara applicator is a molded applicator, the distance R is from about 0.75 mm to about 3.0 mm, and at least one of the primary particles is a wax primary particle composed primarily of one or more waxes.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Jonathan Wyatt, Bryan Michael Kadlubowski, Thomas Elliott Rabe, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
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Patent number: 8061367Abstract: An eyelash extension system having a backbone and a plurality of eyelash extensions attached to the backbone. An adhesive is applied to an application surface of the backbone, and the adhesive is selected from the group of adhesives comprising latex adhesives, solvent-borne adhesives, pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), and hot melt adhesives.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Thomas Elliot Rabe, Peter Jonathan Wyatt, Nancy Taylor Dempsey, Megan Mai Morys, Robert Scadding Moir, Howell Timothy Goldrein, Kate Reeves
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Patent number: D649065Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Keri Marsh Arinsmier, Carolina Lavin
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Patent number: D653398Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gwen Sheila Trinidad Acierto, Mark Jay Barnes, Christopher Louis Hansen, Folke Schlueter, Ian Andrew Carnduff
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Patent number: D654357Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Keri Marsh Arinsmier, Carolina Lavin
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Patent number: D654626Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robyn Beth Nathanson Kolas, Erin Leigh-Syth McMillan
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Patent number: D668384Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kosaku Yamada, Toshiya Taniguchi, Takashi Yoshida, Kazunori Ogami
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Patent number: D673328Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Keri Marsh Arinsmier, Carolina Lavin