Patents Represented by Attorney Sarah Ann Dressel
  • Patent number: 7581273
    Abstract: A disposable nonwoven cleansing mitt adapted to fit on a user's hand, such as a child, is provided. The disposable nonwoven cleansing mitt releasably contains a personal care composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: George Christopher Dobrin, Teresa Lynne Horton, Michael Wayne Mason
  • Patent number: 7527446
    Abstract: A combination toothbrush and toothpaste dispenser, and method, are adapted for use by a child. The dispenser provides an easily actuatable activator that, when operated, discharges a predetermined amount of toothpaste from an orifice. The toothbrush is adapted to automatically lift the toothbrush head off of a support surface to a height near that of the dispenser orifice. As a result, a child may focus on manipulating one item at a time when loading a toothbrush with toothpaste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alyce Johnson Papa, Jeffrey James Stechschulte, Philip Andrew Sawin
  • Patent number: 7517586
    Abstract: This invention relates to an absorbent structure that comprises water-swellable material, which comprises water-swellable polymers that are coated with a coating agent said coating agent comprising a phase-separating elastomeric material, which allows swelling of the water-swellable polymers, without breakage of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Renae Dianna Fossum, Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer
  • Patent number: 7475794
    Abstract: An accessory is provided for a product dispenser having a container for holding a product. The container defines a center axis and has a normal dispensing position, and a dispensing mechanism is coupled to the container and has a discharge opening adapted to direct product toward a desired target area when the container is in the normal dispensing position. The accessory is a first stabilizing element coupled to at least one of the container and dispensing mechanism and adapted to maintain the container in the normal dispensing position, thereby to more reliably direct product toward the target area during use. The first stabilizing element incorporates at least one physical feature attractive to a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Dwayne Walther, Jeffrey James Stechschulte
  • Patent number: 7396585
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an absorbent structure comprising a solid, typically particulate, water-swellable material that comprises 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 wet-elongation of at least 400% or even at least 500%, and preferably a tensile stress at break in the wet state of at least 1 MPa. Typically, the coating agent comprises thereto an elastomeric polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mattias Schmidt, Axel Meyer, Renae Dianna Fossum, Stephen Allen Goldman, Edward Joseph Urankar, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Patent number: 7350256
    Abstract: A disposable child sized cleaning implement is provided. The disposable child sized cleaning implement is releasably carrying a personal care composition which comprises an aromatherapy adjuvant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joyce Marie Benjamin, Michael Wayne Mason, Jenna Mason
  • Patent number: D566577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Iams Company
    Inventors: Sharon Ann Norton, Mark D. Hara
  • Patent number: D567104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: The Iams Company
    Inventors: Sharon Ann Norton, Mark D. Hara, Steven M. Whayne, Leslie Crombie
  • Patent number: D657451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D657452
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D657453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D657454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D657455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D657456
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Nicole Jeane Barna, Jorgen Keynon Carter, Janet Elaine Collins, Terri Lynn Meisel, Holly Kay Kowalski, Joan Barbara Leist
  • Patent number: D657457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., John David Hardginski
  • Patent number: D657458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Wordwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., John David Hardginski
  • Patent number: D657459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., John David Hardginski
  • Patent number: D657868
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Nicole Jeane Barna, Jorgen Keynon Carter, Janet Elaine Collins, Terri Lynn Meisel, Holly Kay Kowalski, Joan Barbara Leist
  • Patent number: D660959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Gehrke, Terri Lynn Meisel, Ayana Roi Green-Oliver, Roman Adolf Weyenberg, Jr., Brian John Berggren, Paul Darrell Dax, Steven Eric McLean, Darcey Ellen McCormick
  • Patent number: D672646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Heidi Ellen Vanden Boom, Dayton Joel Henderson, Robert Eric MacDonald, Michael Patrick McCuskey, Christine Marie Mau