Patents Assigned to Procter and Gamble Company
  • Process for making fibrous structures
    Patent number: 9926648
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Method of treating a fabric by washing with a detergent comprising an anionic/nonionic surfactant system and silicone
    Patent number: 9926520
    Abstract: A method of treating a fabric, where the method includes a washing step and a rinsing step. A multi-component fabric treatment system, wherein the system includes a first component comprising a detergent composition, and where the system further includes a second component comprising a softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Mark Robert Sivik, Renae Dianna Fossum, Susanne Birkel, Nicholas David Vetter, Heather Anne Doria, Carola Barrera, Bernardo Aguilera-Mercado, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Apparatus and methods for modifying keratinous surfaces
    Patent number: 9925362
    Abstract: A method and device for analyzing and treating tonal imperfections on human skin. The method has the steps of providing one or more nozzles and taking an image of skin adjacent the nozzles. A central processing unit calculates a plurality of local L values of the skin near nozzles and calculates a background L. The background L may be the arithmetic average, median, or mean of the plurality of local Ls near nozzles. Skin deviations are areas of skin where the absolute value of the difference between a local L and the background L, ?LM, is greater than a predetermined ?LS. Skin deviations are identified by this method and then treated with a treatment composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Elliot Rabe, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Stephan Gary Bush, Stephan James Andreas Meschkat
  • Personal care compositions providing enhanced cooling sensation
    Patent number: 9918915
    Abstract: Disclosed are personal care compositions for use on hair, skin, oral cavity, throat and other mucosal surfaces containing a flavor/perfume system comprising one or more coolants, wherein the pleasant cool and refreshing sensation provided by the coolant is enhanced in terms of quicker onset, greater intensity or impact and/or longer duration, thereby improving appeal and acceptability of the compositions to consumers. In one embodiment the invention provides oral care compositions comprising (a) a flavor composition comprising one or more non-menthol coolants and optionally one or more additional flavor ingredients, (b) a calcium ion source and/or a calcium transport agent sufficient to potentiate and/or modulate the cooling and refreshing sensation provided by the coolant(s), and (c) an orally-acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: John Christian Haught, William Michael Glandorf, Christine Lula Johnson, Lowell Alan Sanker
  • Web material unwind stand
    Patent number: 9919887
    Abstract: A web unwind stand for obtaining, loading, splicing, and unwinding a web material from a plurality of convolutely wound rolls and forwarding the web material unwound from each of the convolutely wound rolls uninterruptedly to a downstream apparatus is disclosed. The unwind stand has a frame, a positionable roll grasping apparatus having a mandrel connectively engaged thereto and, splicing means. The positionable roll grasping apparatus is capable of obtaining and disposing the convolutely wound rolls proximate to the splicing means relative to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Macura, Rong Deng, Craig Allen Powell, Todd Douglas Lenser
  • Heat treated precipitated silica
    Patent number: 9918914
    Abstract: Process for heat treating precipitated silica to improve stability. Oral care compositions comprising such heat treated precipitated silica abrasives and a stannous ion source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: George Endel Deckner, Lawrence Edward Dolan
  • Methods for shaping fibrous material and treatment compositions therefor
    Patent number: 9918921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of shaping a fibrous material and treatment compositions therefor. The method comprises providing a treatment composition comprising an active agent and a photocatalyst, applying the treatment composition to the fibrous material to form a treated fibrous material, mechanically shaping the treated fibrous material, and exposing the treated fibrous material to electromagnetic radiation. The treatment composition comprises an active agent, wherein the active agent comprises a sugar; and a photocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jamie Angel Reed, Stevan A Samuel, Randy Purnell Washington, Alan David Willey
  • Laundry detergent composition
    Patent number: 9920279
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising; an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises linear alkylbenzene sulphonate; an ethoxylated alcohol non-ionic surfactant; greater than 5.5% by weight of the composition of water; wherein the weight ratio of total anionic surfactant:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 23:1; and wherein the weight ratio of linear alkylbenzene sulphonate:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 15:1; and wherein the weight ratio of total surfactant to water is between 3:1 to 20:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jef Annie Alfons Maes, Johan Maurice Theo De Poortere, Jean-Francois Bodet, Bruno Jean-Pierre Matthys, Alice Michele Boutoille, Lucia Fernandezmartinez
  • Recyclable plastic aerosol dispenser
    Patent number: 9919862
    Abstract: An aerosol dispenser. The aerosol dispenser is made from materials which can go into a single recycling stream having a single class of materials, as defined by the Society of the Plastics Industry, and particularly may exclusively comprise Class 1 materials with no flammable product/propellant present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Edward Smith, Douglas Bruce Zeik
  • Systems and methods for identifying cosmetic agents for hair/scalp care compositions
    Patent number: 9920357
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for determining functional relationships between a cosmetic agent and a hair biology condition of interest. Also provided are methods and systems for identifying cosmetic agents that affect a hair biology condition, as well as the use of agents identified by such methods and systems for the preparation of cosmetic compositions, personal care products, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Scott Youngquist, Jun Xu, Robert Lloyd Binder, Ping Hu, Teresa Dicolandrea, Thomas Larry Dawson, Brian Wilson Howard
  • Methods of regulating skin health and appearance with a combination of flavonoid and vitamin B
    Patent number: 9913792
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to topical compositions comprising a flavonoid compound and a vitamin B3 compound, and optionally a hydrolyzed silk protein or fragment thereof, which are useful for improving the health and appearance of aging skin An exemplary composition contains quercetin, hydrolyzed silk sericin and niacinamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrew David Watson, Toshihiko Okano, Akira Date
  • Process and apparatus for supply of particulate material to a particulate printing process
    Patent number: 9914149
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for depositing particulate material in a predetermined pattern onto a moving surface is disclosed. A particulate material may be fed under gravity from a hopper to a discharge zone containing a feed opening. A gas may be supplied, by a gas supply assembly, under pressure to the bulk of particulate material within the hopper discharge zone. The particulate material may be transferred through the feed opening to the surface of a transfer device, which contains a pattern of particulate-receiving recesses. The transfer device may rotate to a deposition zone and transfer the particulate material to a carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hans Adolf Jackels, Meike Richter, Walter Pieter Hendrik Laurentius Van Der Klugt
  • Method of constructing absorbent articles comprising graphics
    Patent number: 9913761
    Abstract: An absorbent article may be constructed by printing on an unstretched web that forms a portion of the side panels. Seams may be formed by attaching the side panels to a chassis. The side panels and the chassis may have different elastic properties. The absorbent article may also comprise first and second waistbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Dale Trennepohl, Andrew James Sauer, Donald Carroll Roe
  • Compositions and methods for improving skin health
    Patent number: 9913800
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to topical compositions and methods comprising whole, non-viable Micrococcaceae cells, wherein the cells have been processed to kill the cells while minimizing lysis. The topical compositions and methods are useful for decreasing skin inflammation and improving skin barrier function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Henry, Brian W. Howard, Nicholas William Geary, Raul Victorino Nunes, Freddy Arthur Barnabas, Safa Motlagh, Yiping Sun
  • Flexible containers with puckered corners
    Patent number: 9914575
    Abstract: Flexible containers having with inflated elements with puckered corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jun You, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Scott Kendyl Stanley
  • Dentifrice compositions having optimized preservatives
    Patent number: 9913783
    Abstract: A dentifrice composition comprising 45% to 75% water, by weight of the composition; 25% to 50% of a calcium-containing abrasive by weight of the composition; greater than 0.10% to 0.30% benzyl alcohol, by weight of the composition; 0.01% to 0.11% of a paraben by weight of the composition; and an alkaline pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ross Strand, Wei Wei, Hongmei Yang
  • Sanitary tissue products
    Patent number: 9909261
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel compressibility properties alone and in combination with plate stiffness properties and methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold
  • Over the counter supplement container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D812470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristen Tanya Boston, Michelle Kratt Sorg, Jennifer Sarran Talbot, Shelley Renee Scheer, Jean Martin Campbell, Kari Jean Young
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D813030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Diane Danheiser Powers, Andrea Marie Subler
  • Over the counter supplement container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D813031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristen Tanya Boston, Michelle Kratt Sorg, Jennifer Sarran Talbot, Shelley Renee Scheer, Jean Martin Campbell, Kari Jean Young