Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble Company, The
  • Patent number: 8118164
    Abstract: A product display assembly having an x-axis, y-axis, z-axis, x-y-plane, x-z-plane, and y-z plane. The product display assembly also having a base, a plurality of product packages having a product space, and a support stem. The support stem also has one or more hingedly attached flaps wherein the one or more flaps are foldable to extend beyond the product space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Christopher Alan Brown
  • Patent number: 8114022
    Abstract: Business method for generating advertising claims by utilizing Confocal Raman Spectroscopy (CRS) for dermatological studies. The methods of the invention can be carried in vitro (either artificial skin or a sample of skin) or in vivo (directly on the human skin of a person).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Crowther, Anke Sieg, Paul Jonathan Matts, Peter Blenkiron
  • Patent number: 8114059
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided having opposite longitudinal sides and opposite lateral ends therebetween. The absorbent article comprises a topsheet, backsheet, and an absorbent core comprising about 60 percent superabsorbent polymer material between the topsheet and backsheet. The article has front and back waist regions, and a crotch region therebetween. A barrier cuff strip extends longitudinally from front to back waist regions along the topsheet and includes front and back ends and proximal and distal edges connecting the front and back ends. The distal edge is attached at a cuff end bond region having an outer bond edge and an inner bond edge spaced longitudinally from the outer bond edge. A longitudinal distance from the inner bond edge to the laterally extending side at the one of the front and back waist regions is about ½ or more of a longitudinal length of the front or back waist regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Andrew James Sauer, Donald Carroll Roe
  • Patent number: 8114234
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Randall Allen Myers, Christoph Johann Schmitz, Martin Geoffrey Scaife
  • Patent number: 8110072
    Abstract: A papermaking machine for making uncreped through air dried paper having a forming section, a press section, and a drying section is disclosed. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface. The web follows the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric. The web is then dried with a through air dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
  • Patent number: 8112322
    Abstract: A method, in a computer-based online system having a memory, for managing an account for purchasing baby care products by a particular user, wherein the account is for use with a particular category of baby care products, including diapers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rodney Bernard Williams, Katherine Marie Moeggenberg, Charlotte Vallory La Niear
  • Publication number: 20120029461
    Abstract: A fastening member, a process of making a fastening member and an absorbent article that includes a fastening, member are disclosed. The fastening member includes a tape, an actual fastener and an indicium in the form of a macro-mechanical fastener. The macro-mechanical fastener indicium helps a care giver attach the fastening member to a complementary surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: George Christopher Dobrin
  • Publication number: 20120024458
    Abstract: A fastening member, a process of making a fastening member and an absorbent article that includes a fastening member are disclosed. The fastening member includes a tape, an actual fastener and an indicium in the form of a macro-mechanical fastener. The macro-mechanical fastener indicium helps a care giver attach the fasteneing member to a complementary surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: George Christopher Dobrin
  • Patent number: 8105526
    Abstract: A method for making a forming structure. The steps of the method include providing a forming unit, providing a backing film, providing a foraminous element, employing liquid photosensitive resin to form the forming structure, and laser machining a plurality of generally columnar protrusions into the forming structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keith Joseph Stone, Brian Francis Gray, Julie Ann O'Neil, Timothy Paul Fiedeldey
  • Patent number: 8105996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care composition. The personal care composition comprises a surfactant phase. The surfactant phase comprises a surfactant of about 3% to about 12%, by weight of the personal care composition and a co-surfactant of about 4% or less by weight of the personal care composition. The surfactant includes sodium trideceth sulfate. The surfactant phase further comprises a structuring system. The structuring system comprises about 0.05% to about 5%, by weight of the personal care composition, of a crosslinked associative polymer and an electrolyte. The crosslinked associative polymer comprises a hydrophobic modification of less than 10% and can be hydrophobically modified with greater than a C6 alkyl. The personal care composition further comprises a benefit phase comprising a hydrophobic benefit material of about 1% to about 50%, by weight of the personal care composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Shiqing Wei, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn Lynn Mansfield
  • Patent number: 8104616
    Abstract: A clamshell package is provided for holding and displaying a consumer product that comprises a bottle and a cap. The clamshell package comprises a first clamshell side and a second clamshell side, wherein at least a portion of the first and second clamshell sides are affixed together to hold the consumer product between the first and second clamshell sides. The clamshell package further comprises an aperture through which at least a portion of the cap of the consumer product extends from the clamshell package. The clamshell package is therefore able to hold and display the consumer product, while allowing a consumer to access the cap of the product in order to smell or to sample the product. A clamshell package is further provided for holding and displaying a consumer product comprising liquid composition contained in a tottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Peter Dalea, Gary Allen Wessling, Gregory Alan Walters, Kent David Johnson
  • Patent number: 8105300
    Abstract: The absorbent article provides a signal viewable from the top surface of the absorbent article which gives a perception of depth within the absorbent article. This creation of depth perception is accomplished by the use of at least two tones within a color and/or by the use of multiple tones and multiple colors operating together to create a perception of depth within the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Patricia Lee Christon, Bryan Keith Feller, Ronda Lynn Glassmeyer, Rosa Alejandra Hernandez
  • Patent number: D653105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble company
    Inventors: Raf Gustaaf Alfons Degeyter, Vincent De Wilde, Rainer Scharrenberg, Chris Van Den Wouwer
  • Patent number: D653112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Michael White, Andrew Peter Heidel, Paul Frank Diehl, Brian David Andres, Gil Palmon
  • Patent number: D653120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Dombrowski, Erika Linsley Wetzel
  • Patent number: D653122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Dombrowski, George Scott Kerr
  • Patent number: D653398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gwen Sheila Trinidad Acierto, Mark Jay Barnes, Christopher Louis Hansen, Folke Schlueter, Ian Andrew Carnduff
  • Patent number: D654357
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keri Marsh Arinsmier, Carolina Lavin
  • Patent number: D654370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean Martin Campbell, Molly Ann Hablutzel, Kenneth Robert Helmes, Frederick Mason Mariani
  • Patent number: D654371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Victor Klabbers, Robin Lefebvre, Michael Alan John Moss, John David Lamb, Walter Pierre Van den Broeck, Corrine Elizabeth Elstow, James Samuel Richardson