Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Kim Wm. Zerby
  • Patent number: 7365043
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and/or system comprising a perfume composition for use in a lipophilic fluid fabric treatment system and methods of making and using same. Such composition provides perfume/fabric substantivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Keith Homer Baker, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Robert Richard Dykstra, William Michael Scheper, Mark Robert Sivik, John Christian Haught
  • Patent number: 6274540
    Abstract: A cleaning composition comprising: a) about 0.1% to about 99.9% by weight of said composition of an alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system comprising from about 10% to about 100% by weight of said surfactant system of two or more crystallinity-disrupted alkylarylsulfonate surfactants of formula (B-Ar-D)a(Mq+)b(Defined herein after); and b) from about 0.00001% to about 99.9% by weight of said composition of cleaning composition adjunct ingredients, at least one of which is selected from the group consisting of: i) detersive enzymes; ii) organic detergent builders; iii) oxygen bleaching agent; iv) bleach activators; v) transition metal bleach catalysts; vi) oxygen transfer agents and precursors; vii) polymeric soil release agents; viii) water-soluble ethoxylated amines having clay soil removal and antiredeposition properties; ix) polymeric dispersing agents; x) polymeric dye transfer inhibiting agents; xi) alkoxylated polycarboxylates; and xii) mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Kevin Lee Kott, Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Phillip Kyle Vinson
  • Patent number: 6197070
    Abstract: Fabrics are laundered in detergent compositions containing a mixture of &agr;-amylase enzymes to remove malodorous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Hörner, Kristien Greta Govers
  • Patent number: 6187740
    Abstract: Granular detergent compositions contain a bleach and a cellulase enzyme derived from Trichodenna SPP. The compositions are especially useful in a fabric laundering process where bleaching activity is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
  • Patent number: 6180586
    Abstract: Aqueous liquid detergent compositions are described which comprise a proteolytic enzyme wherein the proteolytic activity is reversibly inhibited by a peptide protease inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Winston Saunders, John McMillan McIver, Alan Carl Huber, Larry Anthony Smith
  • Patent number: 6165966
    Abstract: Aqueous liquid detergent compositions are described which comprising a proteolytic enzyme wherein the proteolytic activity is reversibly inhibited by a protease inhibitor selected from the group consisting of aldehydes and trifluoromethyl ketones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John McMillan McIver, Alan Carl Huber, Kirsten Louise McKillop
  • Patent number: 6162783
    Abstract: Aqueous liquid detergent compositions are described which comprise a proteolytic enzyme wherein the proteolytic activity is reversibly inhibited by a peptide protease inhibitor selected from the group consisting of aldehydes and trifluoromethyl ketones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John McMillan McIver, Alan Carl Huber, Kirsten Louise McKillop
  • Patent number: 6103678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fabric treatment composition comprising a hydrophilic perfume and an amino-functional polymer, whereby effective perfume substantivity on the treated fabrics is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Axel Masschelein, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
  • Patent number: 6093691
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fragrance delivery system for use in laundry detergent compositions which provides a long lasting "freshness" or "clean" scent to fabric. The compositions described herein deliver highly fabric substantive pro-accords to the fabric surface during laundering wherein the pro-accords release their fragrance raw materials over a period of up to two weeks. The present invention also relates a method for delivering a pleasurable scent to fabric which has a lasting freshness quality by contacting the fabric with a laundry detergent composition which comprises the fragrance-releasable pro-accords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, John Cort Severns, Frederick Anthony Hartman, Raymond Vernon Burkes, Jill Bonham Costa, John Michael Gardlik