Abstract: A patterned apertured web is disclosed. The patterned apertured web includes a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured web and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured web. At least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures. The patterned apertured web has an Effective Open Area in the range of about 3% to about 30%, according to the Aperture Test herein. The patterned apertured web has a plurality of Interaperture Distances, according to the Aperture Test herein. The Interaperture Distances have a distribution having a median and a mean. The plurality of apertures include a first set of apertures defining a first shape and a second set of apertures defining a second shape.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Timothy Ian Mullane, Kelyn Anne Arora, Jill Marlene Orr, Donald Carroll Roe, Jennifer Schutte, John Brian Strube, Ann Cecilia Tapp, Rachael Eden Walther, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Jennifer Lynn Dusold, Margaret Elizabeth Porter
Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit a novel combination of compressibility properties, plate stiffness properties, and slip stick coefficient of friction properties, and methods for making same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
Abstract: A fabric freshening product that includes (a) freshening aqueous liquid composition including a bispyridinium alkane antimicrobial active and a perfume, and (b) a spray device to produce a spray of the composition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Abigail Mary Konya, Eva Maria Perez-Prat Vinuesa
Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a first and second plurality of elastics. The first plurality of elastics may be disposed in a front and a crotch region. The second plurality of elastics may be disposed in a back region and the crotch region. The first and second plurality of elastics may be linear and parallel with a transverse axis of the article.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 27, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Margaret Henderson Hasse, Luke Robinson Magee
Abstract: A composition including: (i) a plurality of first particles comprising: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble first carrier; and a perfume; wherein each of the first particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; (ii) a plurality of second particles having: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble second carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound formed from a parent fatty acid compound having an Iodine Value from about 18 to about 60; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein each of the second particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; wherein the first particles and the second particles are in a package.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 11, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jaden S. Zerhusen, Alessandro Corona, III, Lenae V. Johnson, Rajan K. Panandiker, Michael P. Fontaine
Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material positioned within a core wrap. The absorbent core defines a first channel therein. A material is positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the core wrap. The material defines a second channel therein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 29, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Donald Carroll Roe, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Nelson Edward Greening, II, Sharon Irene Grenberg, Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Marie Brigid O'Reilly, Rodrigo Rosati, Sandra Sautter, Beate Simon, Lutz Stelzig, Rachael Eden Walther
Abstract: A seamless unitary deflection member. The seamless unitary deflection member can have a backside defining an X-Y plane and a thickness in a Z-direction. The seamless unitary deflection member may also have a reinforcing member and a plurality of protuberances positioned on the reinforcing member. Each protuberance may have a three-dimensional shape such that any cross-sectional area of the protuberance parallel to the X-Y plane can have an equal or lesser area than any cross-sectional area of the protuberance being a greater distance from the X-Y plane in the Z-direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
John Allen Manifold, John Leslie Brent, James Michael Singer
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Gerald Donner, Robert Paul Cassoni, Matthew Richard Allen
Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising a first composition comprising an inorganic heat generating agent that generates a heat by mixing with water; and a second composition comprising a cationic surfactant system comprising a mono-alkyl quaternized ammonium salt cationic surfactant, a high melting point fatty compound, and an aqueous carrier; wherein the ratio of the first composition to the second composition is from about 35:65 to 98:2; the difference in viscosities between the first and second composition is less than 3.5 Pa·s; the first and second compositions are kept separate from one another until dispensed; and the cosmetic composition when dispensed has a warming benefit.
Abstract: A laundry scent additive having polyethylene glycol and perfume. The laundry scent additive enables consumers to control the amount of scent imparted to their laundry.
Abstract: The need for a cleaning product comprising a spray dispenser and a cleaning composition, which provides improved polymeric grease cleaning and suds mileage, and hence reduced time to clean the dishes, is met by a cleaning product comprising a spray dispenser and a cleaning composition, the composition is housed in the spray dispenser and wherein the cleaning composition comprises anionic surfactant and alkyl glucamide surfactant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 28, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Roxane Rosmaninho
Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Andrew James Sauer, Aaron Duane Seitz
Abstract: A system and method for operating a personal grooming/household appliance, including: providing a personal grooming/household appliance including at least one physical sensor taken from a group consisting of: an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, an inertial sensor, a global positioning sensor, a pressure sensor, and a load sensor, audio sensor, humidity sensor, and a temperature sensor; providing a camera associated with the personal grooming/household appliance; classifying data received from the physical sensor and from the camera using at least one trained machine learning classifier to generate an augmented classification; and providing user feedback information based upon the augmented classification or modifying operation of the grooming/household appliance based upon the augmented classification.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Xiaole Mao, Reiner Engelmohr, Christian Peter Mandl, Moritz Poetzsch, Nasir Saeed Khan
Abstract: Fibrous elements containing one or more fibrous element-forming materials and one or more polyethylene oxides, and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Mark Robert Sivik, Mark William Hamersky, Paul R. Mort, III, Jose Manuel Montenegro-Alvarado, Seth Edward Lindberg
Abstract: The absorbent article includes a topsheet having a body contacting surface, a backsheet joined to said topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent core has a first absorbent core having a first area and a second area, wherein the first absorbent core and the second absorbent core are vertically arranged, wherein the second absorbent core at least partially covers the second area of the first absorbent core, and wherein the first absorbent core and the second absorbent core have different compositions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter and Gamble Company
Inventors:
Miguel Alvaro Robles, Bruce William Lavash, Sion Agami, John Lee Hammons
Inventors:
Julian Richard John Gruzelier, Gillian Meredith Anne Haro, Brett Tom, Wei Gu, Reid Andersen Schlegel, Danvu Nam Nguyen, Calvin Shenghuai Lin, Longfei Zhang
Inventors:
Julian Richard John Gruzelier, Gillian Meredith Anne Haro, Brett Tom, Wei Gu, Reid Andersen Schlegel, Danvu Nam Nguyen, Calvin Shenghuai Lin, Longfei Zhang