Patents Assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Company
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Patent number: 11771214Abstract: An oral care system that includes an oral care implement and a tracking attachment. The oral care implement may include a handle and a head. The tracking attachment is detachably coupled to the oral care implement. The tracking attachment may include a first component comprising a first housing having an inner surface that defines a first cavity and a second component comprising a second housing having an inner surface that defines a second cavity. When the tracking attachment is coupled to the oral care implement, a first portion of the handle is positioned within the first cavity and a second portion of the handle is positioned within the second cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: John Gatzemeyer, Takahide Okai
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Publication number: 20230294119Abstract: A system for dispensing a personal care fluid, such as a hand soap or the like. The system includes a dispenser and a refill cartridge. The dispenser includes a dispenser body having a refill cavity and a dispenser lid configured to be coupled to the dispenser body. There may be a pump sub-system mounted to the dispenser lid, or alternatively the personal care fluid may be dispensed by squeezing the dispenser and refill cartridge. The refill cartridge is configured for slidable insertion into and removal from the refill cavity of the dispenser body. The personal care fluid system is designed so that a user can readily and easily change out/replace the refill cartridge for use with a common dispenser, dispenser lid, and pump sub-system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Kiat-Cheong Toh, Mark Bartlett, Peter Fallat, II
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Publication number: 20230287303Abstract: Described herein are fabric softening compositions novel fabric softeners and conditioners that comprises a formula with a polyhydric alcohol (e.g., glycerin) and a nonionic cellulose ether (e.g., hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC)) backbone, and a plant-based softening agent comprising one or more agents selected from: a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is further selected from the group consisting of isopropyl myristate, isopropyl palmitate, isodecyl neopentanoate, isodecyl oleate, and diisopropyl adipate, or a partially hydrolyzed plant protein. Methods of manufacturing are also contemplated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Sandra Paola SANCHEZ, Raul MALDONADO, Carla LOPEZ, Marcela HERNANDEZ
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Patent number: 11752333Abstract: An oral care implement herein may be embodied as an oral device for placement in the oral cavity. The device may include an insert configured for placement in the oral cavity in contact with a wearer's teeth and an activating member configured for placement in the oral cavity and selectively attachable to the insert.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Patrik Johansson, Evaristo Delgado, Daniel Wainless
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Patent number: 11752075Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to oral care compositions comprising a source of zinc, a fluoride source, a zwitterionic surfactant and a taurate surfactant. In one aspect the compositions of the disclosure can be used for the treatment or reduction of erosive tooth demineralization, gingivitis, plaque, and dental caries. In one aspect the oral care composition includes zinc citrate, zinc oxide, arginine, cocamidopropyl betaine and at least one taurate surfactant (e.g., sodium methyl cocoyl taurate).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Dennis Zhang, Luciana Rinaudi Marron, Stacey Lavender, Lauren Evans, Neeta Atul Patel, Venda Porter Maloney, Alice Ng
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Patent number: 11753671Abstract: Methods for visualizing oral biofilm growth and methods for identifying compounds that modulate biofilm growth are provided. Biofilm samples are stained with fluorescent dyes and viewed with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Biofilm samples are in a container with a cover slip configured for viewing the biofilm sample with the confocal laser scanning microscope and the coverslip has a thickness variation of 0.02 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Tulika Sarma, Rehana Begum-Gafur
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Patent number: 11751675Abstract: An toothbrush having a handle and a head. The handle may include a first component and a second component covering at least a portion of the first component. The first and second components may be chemically compatible. The first and second components may both comprise a hard polyolefin. The first and second components may have different transparencies. In one aspect, the first component may be opaque and the second component may be transparent or semi-transparent. In some aspects, the handle may also include a third component comprising a thermoplastic elastomer. Furthermore, there may be at least one projection extending outwardly from an outer surface of the first component.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Chi Shing Wong, Douglas J. Hohlbein, Kenneth Waguespack, Al Sprosta, Wen Jin Xi, Xiangji Ding
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Publication number: 20230270638Abstract: The invention provides oral care compositions, for example a dentifrice or mouthwash, comprising zinc phosphate, wherein the zinc phosphate is added to the dentifrice or mouthwash as a preformed salt; as well as methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Aarti REGE, David Suriano, Richard Sullivan, Michael Stranick
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Publication number: 20230270637Abstract: Described herein are nonaqueous oral care compositions comprising an orally acceptable vehicle, a whitening agent; and one or more gelling agents wherein the one or more gelling agents comprises a salt of a fatty acid; along with methods of making and using same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Guisheng PAN, Lin FEI, Suman CHOPRA
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Publication number: 20230264862Abstract: A cap (100) for a container (120) is provided. The cap (100) may include a skirt (102) component and a seal component (104). The skirt (102) component is formed of a metal material and includes an annular outer sidewall (103) defining a skirt cavity (123) that extends along a skirt axis and has an open bottom end (107). The seal component (104) is formed of a plastic material and includes an annular seal sidewall (111) having a threaded inner surface (108) configured to mate with a threaded outer surface of a neck of a container body (120). The annular seal sidewall (111) may define a neck cavity (113) having a closed top end (104) and an open bottom end (115) for receiving the neck of the container (124). The seal component (104) may be mounted to the skirt (102) component and/or located within the skirt cavity (123) so that the annular outer sidewall (103) of the skirt component (102) circumscribes the annular seal (111) sidewall of the seal component (104).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Kathleen FRISCH, Francis TATU, Hope TOWNSEND, Renee Marie RIETHMILLER, Mark BARTLETT
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Publication number: 20230263711Abstract: The present invention relates to core shell silica particles, wherein each core shell silica particle comprises a silica core, and a surface of the silica core is etched with metal silicate, the core shell silica particles prepared by: i) admixing an amount of silica particles in water with an amount of a base, wherein the base comprises a monovalent metal ion, to produce core shell silica particles, each core shell silica particle comprising a silica core, and a surface of the silica core etched with a silicate of the monovalent metal ion; and ii) reacting the core shell silica particles formed in step i) with a metal salt comprising a second metal ion, to form core shell silica particles comprising silicate of the second metal ion on the surface of the silica core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Guisheng Pan, Suman Chopra
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Patent number: 11730259Abstract: A method of priming an applicator of a personal care implement with a fluid. The method may include flowing a fluid along a first capillary member from a reservoir of a fluid supply system to an applicator of a personal care implement along a first fluid flow path, and flowing the fluid along a second capillary member from the reservoir of the fluid supply system to the applicator of the personal care implement along a second fluid flow path that is distinct from the first flow path. In one aspect, the fluid flowing along the second fluid flow path reaches the applicator before the fluid flowing along the first fluid flow path. In another aspect, the first capillary member is formed of a non-absorbent material and the second capillary member is formed of an absorbent material.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Erin Speicher, Leighton Davies-Smith
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Patent number: 11731810Abstract: A container for dispensing a composition comprises a container body extending along a longitudinal axis from a bottom end to a top end, the container body defining an internal cavity for holding the composition. The container body comprises a neck having a container opening open to the internal cavity, a front wall, a rear wall and a pair of side walls extending between the front and rear wall, and a shoulder comprising a pair of first shoulder walls extending between the neck and a respective side wall of the container body, the first shoulder walls extending at a first non-perpendicular angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. The container also comprises a shoulder fitting attached to the neck, the shoulder fitting extending over the first and second shoulders of the container body and including a nozzle extending therethrough, the nozzle open to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Francis Tatu, Brian Balamucki, Mark Bartlett, Daniel Peters, Xi Chen, Shihui Liang
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Publication number: 20230255737Abstract: In one embodiment, a personal care appliance includes an electric motor having a drive shaft. In response to a voltage signal, the drive shaft is oscillated in an oscillatory motion having an oscillation amplitude. A control circuit includes, in operable cooperation, a user interface, a processor, a pulse width modulation signal generator, and a power source. The control circuit supplies the voltage signal to the electric motor, the voltage signal having a frequency and a duty cycle. The control circuit varies the frequency and the duty cycle of the voltage signal in response to an oscillation adjustment input received from the user interface so that the oscillation amplitude of the drive shaft is varied along a substantially linear rate of change profile relative to the frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Xiaonan ZHANG, Yongxing Wu
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Publication number: 20230255344Abstract: A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Thomas SERVAL, Yann Nicolas
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Publication number: 20230255736Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention may be a teeth cleaning device including: a first support structure comprising a first dentature channel configured to receive at least a first portion of a dentature of a user; a plurality of teeth cleaning pads located within the first dentature channel; a plurality of air bladders operably coupled to the teeth cleaning pads; an air-flow subsystem operably coupled to the air bladders; and a control unit operably coupled to the air-flow subsystem, the control unit configured to: (1) pressurize the air bladders with external air in a pressurization mode; and (2) transfer air between select ones of the air bladders in a cleaning mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Robert Pierce, Nagarajan Jayaraman, Mark Bakhrakh, Igor Kachko, Stanislav Kolchanov, Pavel Karavaev, Rostislav Khorenyan, Irina Sigalovsky, Semyon Kogan
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Publication number: 20230256260Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for monitoring acne is disclosed. A sensor device includes an image sensor and a position sensor. A processing device receives image data and position data from the sensor device. The processing device then combines portions of the image data for different images to generate composite image data, the combination being based on the corresponding position data for each image. A user interface displays a composite image of the user's skin based on the composite image data, the composite image including a skin condition indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Hrebesh Molly SUBHASH, Deborah Ann Peru
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Publication number: 20230255865Abstract: Described herein are high water oral care composition comprising an orally acceptable vehicle; a thickening system; one or more abrasives; and one or more gelling agents, wherein the one or more gelling agents comprise a salt of a fatty acid; and wherein the salt is a monovalent salt, a divalent salt, or a combination thereof. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Guisheng PAN, Lin FEI, Suman CHOPRA, Pooja KULKARNI
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Patent number: D997566Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventor: Brian Bloch
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Patent number: D997567Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Takahide Okai, Brian Bloch, Brett Newman, Kyle Swen, Francois Dransart, Carly Byungyeon Kim