Patents Assigned to Colgate
  • Oral Care Compositions and Methods of Use
    Publication number: 20180333349
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are oral care compositions comprising hemp seed oil and caprylyl glycol. In certain embodiments, the oral care composition optionally further comprises one or more ingredients selected from hyaluronic acid and aloe vera. Methods of making and using the compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Shamim Ansari, Harsh Mahendra TRIVEDI, James MASTERS
  • Toothbrush with Visual And/or Other Sensory Effects
    Publication number: 20180332954
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Chi Shing WONG, Douglas HOHLBEIN, Kenneth WAGUESPACK, Al Aquanza SPROSTA, Wen Jin XI, Xiang Ji DING
  • Methods and compositions for improving kidney function
    Patent number: 10130603
    Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for improving kidney function and for the treatment or prophylaxis of kidney disease in dogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Dennis Jewell
  • Dentifrice Comprising Zinc-Amino Acid Complex and Phosphates
    Patent number: 10130571
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are dentifrices comprising a zinc amino acid complex together with soluble phosphate salts. Methods of making and using the dentifrices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Gregory Szewczyk, Lisa Manus, Lyndsay Schaeffer-Korbylo
  • Composition and method for providing glutamine
    Patent number: 10130113
    Abstract: A process for preparing a glutamine-supplemented food product by contacting water and a nutritive base that predominantly comprises meat and carbohydrate with a peptide source of glutamine to form a wet mixture and heating the wet mixture at a temperature of from about 50° C. to about 105° C. for a time sufficient to cook the nutritive base. The process forms a cooked food composition comprising from about 60% to about 85% by weight water. The product is useful for feeding to an animal to increase glutamine absorption or to strengthen immune function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kathy Gross, Christina Khoo
  • Compositions and devices
    Patent number: 10130597
    Abstract: The present invention provides oral instruments comprising a basic amino acid, to compositions for making such instruments, and to methods of making and using such instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Michael Prencipe, Richard Scott Robinson, Rajnish Kohli, Richard J. Sullivan, Diane Cummins
  • Oral Care Composition Comprising Chitosan and Silica
    Publication number: 20180325799
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are oral care compositions comprising chitosan and at least one small particle silica, wherein the oral care composition has an acidic pH. Further disclosed herein are methods for reducing dental sensitivity comprising applying to the surface of the tooth an oral care composition comprising chitosan and at least one small particle silica, wherein the oral care composition has an acidic pH, as well as methods of occluding dentin tubules as disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Jessie FONTERS, Jeannine LOETSCHER, Andre BRUNELLA
  • Personal care compositions
    Patent number: 10123952
    Abstract: Described herein, are aqueous soluble tin phosphate complexes formed from a mixture comprising tin (II) fluoride or tin (II) chloride and a tripolyphosphate salt, e.g., sodium tripolyphosphate (Na5P3O10), and external personal care compositions comprising the complexes, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Shiri Nawrocki, Viktor Dubovoy, Long Pan
  • Dual phase mouthwash compositions
    Patent number: 10123951
    Abstract: The present invention provides a packaged mouthwash composition, the mouthwash composition comprising an aqueous phase and an oil phase; wherein the mouthwash composition is contained within a container, the aqueous phase being present as a first bulk layer and the oil phase being present as a second bulk layer, the first and second bulk layers being in contact with one another at an interface, with one of said layers being disposed on top of the other of said layers in the container; and wherein the mouthwash composition comprises a silicone oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Rensl Dillon, Hameda Ahmed
  • Oral care compositions
    Patent number: 10123956
    Abstract: An oral care composition comprising (i) basic amino acid in free or salt form, (ii) calcium carbonate, (iii) a fluoride ion source, (iv) a flavoring agent comprising less than 50% menthol, and (v) an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant is present in an amount from 1.00 weight % to 1.39 weight % is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Agnieszka Kocinska, Pierre Lambert, Sandra Pereira Ramos, Nadia Bueb, Joshua Schmid
  • Bristle and Toothbrush Incorportating the Same
    Publication number: 20180317644
    Abstract: A bristle and a tooth brush incorporating the same. A toothbrush (100) having a handle (120), a head (110) coupled to the handle (120), and at least one bristle that comprising a composition including a polymer and fibroin particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Wen Jin Xi, Guang Sheng GUO, Bo ZHANG
  • Aluminum salt containing high percentage of Al
    Patent number: 10118832
    Abstract: A composition comprising an aluminum chlorohydrate salt, the aluminum chlorohydrate salt having at least 50 mole % Al30 polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cation of all polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cations detectable by quantitative 27Al NMR within the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a buffer. The composition can optionally include zirconium. Also disclosed are a method of making an aluminum salt using an increased molar concentration of a starting aluminum salt with a buffer, a method of reducing perspiration with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a method of treating water with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Iraklis Pappas, John Vaughn, Long Pan
  • Refillable liquid dispensing device
    Patent number: 10117495
    Abstract: A system (100) for dispensing a fluid, such as a deodorant is provided. The system (100) includes a dispenser (102) defining a first reservoir (108) therein and comprising a check valve (112) communicating with the first reservoir (108) and an exterior of the dispenser (102). The system (100) also includes a refill cartridge (104) defining a second reservoir (128) therein and including a valve-piercing element (126) configured to be received through the check valve (112), such that, when the valve-piercing element (126) is received through the check valve (112), the second reservoir (128) of the refill cartridge (104) fluidly communicates with the first reservoir (108) of the dispenser (102) via the valve-piercing element (126).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Ilaria Ogis
  • Hairball control through dietary mineral limitation
    Patent number: 10117446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for controlling hairball formation in animals, particularly for treating and/or preventing hairball formation, elimination, and/or discharge by companion animals, including cats and dogs, by limitation of dietary minerals. The methods comprise feeding the animals in need of such treatment compositions comprising from 0.60% to 0.74% calcium by dry weight of the composition; from 0.50% to 0.69% phosphorous by dry weight of the composition; and from 0.06% to 0.28% sodium by dry weight of the composition, in an amount and for a time sufficient for treatment and/or prevention of hairball formation in the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Dennis Jewell, Luis J. Montelongo
  • Antiperspirant compositions containing ethylenediamine disuccinate
    Patent number: 10111817
    Abstract: Antiperspirant compositions that incorporate ethylene diamine disuccinate salts as replacements for ethylenediaminetraacetic acid salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Viktor Dubovoy, Richard Adams, Sandra Wadeer, Christine Boyke, Long Pan
  • Packaged oral care implement and package
    Patent number: 10112760
    Abstract: A packaged oral care implement and a package having an easy-open feature. In one embodiment, the invention utilizes a protuberance that acts as a fulcrum to force an edge of a tear-away portion to protrude from a surface of the package in response to a force being applied to a force-application area of the tear-away portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Quang Nguyen
  • Oral Care Implement and Method of Forming an Oral Care Implement
    Publication number: 20180303231
    Abstract: An oral care implement having movable and fixed tooth cleaning elements. The oral care implement may include a handle and a head coupled to the handle. The head may include a base that is coupled to the handle and a resilient bridge coupled to the base. The resilient bridge may be flexible between a normal state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is spaced from the base by a gap and a flexed state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is moved toward the base. Tooth cleaning elements may be coupled to the resilient bridge. Furthermore, the resilient bridge may include one or more apertures through which tooth cleaning elements that are fixed to the base may extend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Eduardo JIMENEZ, Kenneth WAGUESPACK, Douglas HOHLBEIN, Anthony BAXTER, Marisol RODRIGUEZ, Alberto MANTILLA, Ellis Junior SMITH, Chad Leighton HELLAND
  • Toothbrush
    Patent number: D832586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Robert Moskovich, Michael Rooney, Joachim Storz, Raimund Klausegger, Andreas Wechsler
  • Oral care implement
    Patent number: D834321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Scott Demarest, Michael Terranova, Patricia Leunis, Raymond Clepper, Renee Marie Riethmiller
  • Oral care implement
    Patent number: D834326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Daniel Wainless, Christina Herrmann