Patents Assigned to Conopco, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11904035
    Abstract: The invention relates to lamellar liquid composition comprising acyl isethionate, methyl acyl taurate, amphoteric and/or zwitterionic surfactant. Unexpectedly, applicants have found that, when ratio of isethionate to taurate is kept at about to 1:1, enhanced lather is achieved. Other criticalities include ratio of amphoteric and/or zwitterionic to anionic surfactant, total amount of surfactant, and pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas John Hiban, Jamie Lynn Miller, Tirucherai Varahan Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20240050342
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a prolipid composition that penetrates the stratum corneum. More particularly, the invention is directed to a prolipid composition that provides personalized benefits by rapidly restoring the skins natural lipid balance. Such a composition results in elongated fatty acid and/or lipid production deep in the stratum corneum and near the surface of the stratum lucidum. The composition at least comprises a fatty acid, fatty ester and/or an acylglycerol and an activator of a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: John Steven BAJOR, Brian John DOBKOWSKI, Galina YAROVA, William F. LATHROP, Jason Peter HARCUP
  • Publication number: 20240052262
    Abstract: A laundry liquid composition comprising at least 50% wt. water, an alkyl ether sulphate surfactant and an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant, wherein at least one of the alkyl ether sulphate and alcohol ethoxylate comprises at least 10% weight C16/18 alkyl chains and a dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Stephen Norman BATCHELOR, Neil Stephen BURNHAM
  • Publication number: 20240050358
    Abstract: Disclosed is a personal care composition providing anti-inflammation benefits. The composition comprises a Moringa extract and a hydroxy fatty acid, wherein the weight ratio of the Moringa extract to the hydroxy fatty acid is from 1:1 to 75:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Xuelan GU, Dandan HUANG, Hong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240052264
    Abstract: A fabric conditioner composition comprising: a) fabric softening active; and b) ingredient comprising at least one ethoxylate unit and at least one carbon derived from carbon capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: CONOPCO, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Karl Burgess, Alastair Richard SANDERSON, Iain Murdoch STEVENSON, John Francis WELLS
  • Patent number: 11896699
    Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous skin cleansing compositions. Specific amounts and chain length of acyl glycinate and acyl glutamate when used in specified ratios, have been found to unexpectedly enhance lather volume and texture, as well as provide superior mildness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Yeyi Gu, Tirucherai Varahan Vasudevan, Kayla Marie Kemler, Adrienne Lyn King
  • Publication number: 20240032575
    Abstract: a savoury flavour concentrate from seaweed provides for umami and meaty notes when added to savoury food product. The concentrate can be used for the preparation of flavour products or can be added as such. Also described is a process for the preparation of the concentrate from seaweed by boiling seaweed, removing it from the boiling water, and further concentrating the remaining liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Tino Rubesa, Kok-Kin Chan, Evert Vermandel, Johannes Maria Baptist Matthee, Anne Zantinge
  • Patent number: 11883516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a personal cleansing composition that delivers enhanced deposition of sunscreens on to the topical surface of the body. The composition more particularly provides for such wash off compositions that ensure that the sunscreens incorporated therein are stable and due to the high deposition on to surface provide high Sun Protection Factor (SPF). This is achieved through combination of two select water-soluble sunscreens in a high surfactant containing composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.
    Inventors: Mohini Anand Bapat, Praful Gulab Rao Lahorkar, Rajkumar Perumal, Nikita Tomar, Ashish Anant Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11884901
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mousse composition comprising: a) a base composition comprising: (i) from 0.0001 to 5 wt. % of a lactam; (ii) from 0.1 to 10 wt. % of an alcohol; and, b) a propellant; and to the use of a combination of a lactam with an alcohol, in a mousse composition to collapse the resulting mousse foam quicker; and to the use of a combination of a lactam with an alcohol, in a mousse composition to make the resulting mousse foam easier to rinse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Panagiotis Kotsakis, Neil James Parry, Keith Leslie Rutherford, Simon John Moore
  • Patent number: 11883835
    Abstract: A discrete product refill container and a rigid outer shell container. The refill container includes a product chamber and a fitment secured thereto. The fitment includes a ledge which is suitable for resting on a ledge of the rigid outer shell container while permitting the product chamber to pass into the shell interiorly to the ledge. It may also include a rim for grasping by transfer equipment. The fitment includes a destructive cover, i.e., one which cannot readily be re-closed, so that the consumer can easily make the product within the refill available for pumping, as desired. The rigid outer shell container can be snap fit closed. The refill bottle may be a pouch or a thin walled bottle, with a fitment. The fitment may serve to support the bottle in an inverted position for display or storage. The refill bottle may also include an integral ledge for support in the rigid outer shell container, instead of a discrete fitment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Slavica Cesare, Lauren Alicia Ugliuzza, Graham Keith Lacy, Jonathan Edward Mason, Gregory Lalier
  • Patent number: 11883521
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of rinse-off conditioner compositions; in particular, relates to rinse-off conditioner compositions for hair frizz reduction. Deposition of conditioning materials onto the hair surface results in hair having a greasy feel and look which is undesired. Therefore, there still exists the opportunity to increase the conditioning benefits delivered through hair care compositions, preferably without hair having to look and feel greasy. It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a conditioning product with superior frizz control even after multiple washes and which does not make the hair look and feel greasy. It has been found that a conditioner composition providing superior frizz control can be obtained using a specific combination of silicones and a tricarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Malcolm Murray, Anne-Sophie Piggott
  • Publication number: 20240025826
    Abstract: The invention concerns an oleyl alcohol, wherein the oleyl chain is obtained from a mixture of 1:9 to 6:4, preferably 2:8 to 5:5 of oil (1):oil (2) by hydrogenation of a fatty acid, a fatty acid methyl ester or a combination thereof to provide a fatty alcohol, where oil (1) is selected from palm oil, cottonseed oil or a mixture thereof, and oil (2) is selected from tall oil, olive oil, low erucic rapeseed oil, sunflower seed oil variants containing greater than 60 wt. % oleic acid or mixtures thereof; and a process to make said oleyl alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventor: Stephen Norman BATCHELOR
  • Publication number: 20240026252
    Abstract: Soap composition comprising (i) saponified fatty matter made from a fat blend comprising lauric fatty acid and saturated and unsaturated non-lauric fatty acids, the iodine value being from 44 to 58 g iodine per 100 g of said saponified fatty matter; and (ii) a hydrogel which is non-thermoreversible at 70 to 140° C. Disclosed is also a bar of soap comprising the soap composition and a process of preparing the soap composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Sivakumar ANANTHASUBRAMANIAN, Prashant Popat BABAR, Ganesh Ankush PAWAR, Anal PUSHKARNA
  • Publication number: 20240024215
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hair care composition comprising a (i) an anionic surfactant; (ii) an amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant; (iii) piroctone olamine; iv) a polyaspartate or its derivative presented by the structure of formula (1), where the sum of m+n is from 2 to 10000, R1, R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, OH, (O)mG, m is 0 or 1, G is independently selected from the group consisting of H and a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 organic group, ammonium salt, wherein non-limiting examples of the metal salts include Na, K, Ca, Mg, Al salts; and v) a cosmetically acceptable carrier; wherein the weight ratio of said polyaspartate or its derivative to said piroctone olamine in the composition is at least 2:3. It has been shown to improve the stability of the piroctone olamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Feng CAO, Guoqiang CHEN, Chengdong JI
  • Patent number: 11879831
    Abstract: A method of measuring a wet friction of a bundle of hair, using a system which includes a friction probe having a contact surface and fitted with a weight in the range of from 10 g to 500 g, inclusive, a means for securing the bundle of hair, and a water bath, the friction probe being connected to a texture analyser, the method including the step of i) providing a bundle of hair fibres. The method also includes the steps of ii) aligning the bundle of hair fibres; iii) securing the bundle of hair fibres; iv) immersing the bundle of hair fibres under water in the water bath; v) contacting the bundle of hair fibres with the contact surface of the friction probe, which is fitted with the weight; vi) moving the probe along the hair fibres; and vii) recording the friction generated under step vi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Anthony Howard Barnes, Fraser Ian Bell, Colin Christopher David Giles, Sophia Paraskevi Clare Moghadam, Rongrong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11879112
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of fabric cleaning compositions; in particular powder detergent compositions having foaming and cleaning characteristics in the main wash, yet significant foam reduction during rinse. Accordingly the present inventors have investigated ways of improving the defoaming ingredient such that the defoaming ingredient has improving foam-subsiding effects in the rinse stage. However they found that incorporating a monoester of glycerol of unsaturated fatty acids in a cleaning composition has adverse effects on the perfume impact of the cleaning composition. The inventors have found that the disadvantages of the prior art can be overcome, if a monoester of glycerol and unsaturated fatty acid is sorbed by a porous carrier material having a specific pore size and pH ranges. The inventive defoaming ingredient did not masked and/or altered the perfume delivery of the detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Koushik Acharya, Sujitkumar Suresh Hibare, Panchanan Bhunia
  • Patent number: D1011888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Raianna Marie O'Toole, Meegan Daigler, Albert J. Kwak, Charles Simon Paradise
  • Patent number: D1011922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Lalier, Mary Margaret Sheridan, Daniel Martin, Wooyeon Cho, Heesop Chong, Mariana Escobar Jimenez, Michelle C Mak, Laurent Jean-Marie Hainaut
  • Patent number: D1012717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Jean-Marie Hainaut, Heesop Chong, Mariana Escobar Jimenez
  • Patent number: D1012724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Jean-Marie Hainaut, Heesop Chong, Mariana Escobar Jimenez