Abstract: The disclosure relates to products including a polysaccharide derivative wherein the polysaccharide derivative includes a polysaccharide substituted with at least one of: a) at least one sulfate group; b) at least one sulfonate group; c) at least one thiosulfate group; or d) a combination thereof; wherein the polysaccharide is poly alpha-1,3-glucan, poly alpha-1,6-glucan, poly alpha-1,3-1,6-glucan, or a mixture thereof; and the polysaccharide derivative has a degree of substitution of about 0.001 to about 3. The products can be useful as anti-deposition and/or anti-graying agents in laundry detergents, and in home care applications.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Mark Robert Sivik, Zhengzheng Huang, Helen S. M. Lu, Rakesh Nambiar, Jayme L. Paullin
Abstract: Multi-ply fibrous structures and more particularly multi-ply fibrous structures containing three or more different fibrous structure plies, and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
David William Cabell, Matthew Gary McKee, Christopher Scott Kraus, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Benjamin J. Popham
Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles, each individual particle having a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 5, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Alessandro Corona, III, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles L. Schmitt, Jaden Scott Zerhusen
Abstract: Described herein is an absorbent article including (a) an absorbent core, a first nonwoven material, a second nonwoven material, and a bond area; and (b) a polymeric filler composition disposed within the bond area. The polymeric filler composition has less than 1% of a tackifier. The polymeric filler composition is chosen from a propylene butene copolymer, a polypropylene homopolymer, a propylene ethylene copolymer, and mixtures thereof. The polymeric filler composition has a Tensile Strength at Yield of from about 0.5 MPa to about 10 MPa. The bond area has a Peak Peel Strength of from about 0.1 N/cm to about 9 N/cm after exposure to a skin-protecting material for 24 hours.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Haines Turner, John Andrew Strasemeier
Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
Abstract: Benefit agent containing delivery particles that can be supplied as slurries, compositions comprising such particles, and processes for making and using such particles and compositions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Johan Smets, Corey James Kenneally, Ariel Lebron, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel, Robert Stanley Bobnock, Peggy Dorothy Sands, Todd Arlin Schwantes, Chad Alexander Hladilek
Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
Abstract: A device and method for applying a material to a hard surface. The device has a sensor and one or more applicator nozzles. The device further includes a reservoir for containing a material to be deposited, and a CPU. The method includes providing information from the sensor about the surface to the CPU, which uses the information to identify where the material is to be deposited and/or how much to deposit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Stephan Gary Bush, Ted De Castro, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Dana Paul Gruenbacher, Kenneth Lee Morand, Thomas Elliot Rabe, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Nicola John Policicchio, Philip Andrew Sawin, Jeremy Michael Carter
Abstract: A method for coating a part that has an asymmetrical edge by attaching the part to a part holder, placing a film between the part and a mandrel, rolling the part over the mandrel such that the asymmetrical edge of the part contact the film, and, moving one or both of the mandrel and the part holder in an angular relationship to one another as the angle of the part's asymmetrical edge changes. A film dispenser and a film retriever are provided and preferably they move cooperatively in at least two dimensions with respect to the part holder. The film has a first edge and a second edge, and the film can be a decorative coating, a protective coating or combinations of these. The film dispenser holds the first edge of the film, the film is positioned between the mandrel and the part holder and the film retriever holds the film second edge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2011
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Norm Henry Tiilikka, Susana E. Borrero, Ingo Dieter Erhardt, Stefan Rudi Wicklein, Werner Mischer
Abstract: A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body. The valve body includes a first hoop member, a second hoop member, and a transition portion defined by the joining of the first hoop member and the second hoop member. The first hoop member includes a first hoop outer portion positioned, a first hoop inner portion, a first hoop upper surface, and a first hoop lower surface. The second hoop member includes a second hoop outer portion, a second hoop inner portion, a second hoop upper surface, and a second hoop lower surface. The second hoop inner portion extends about the longitudinal axis defining a passageway. The passageway comprises a first passageway opening, a second passageway opening opposite the first passageway opening, and a passageway surface extending from the first passageway opening to the second passageway opening.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
David Andrew Dalton, Robert Earl Magness, John Boyet Stevens, Kerry Lloyd Weaver
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a disposable absorbent pant includes forming an elasticized multilayer web and joining a third nonwoven web to it and optionally sandwiching leg and waist elastic members between one or more layers of the elasticized multilayer web and/or the third nonwoven web to form disposable absorbent pants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Sarah Marie Wade, Gary Dean LaVon, Miguel Alvaro Robles
Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a personal composition comprising a) a strobilurin; b) salicylic acid wherein the ratio of a:b is from about 1:1 to about 100:1; wherein there is a synergistic anti-inflammatory/cellular stress activity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2020
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jeanette Anthea Richards, James Robert Schwartz, Leo Timothy Laughlin, II, Geoffrey Marc Wise, Eric Scott Johnson
Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus including a plurality of swivel casters. Two of the swivel casters are braked swivel casters. One of the swivel casters other than the braked swivel casters is a vertically adjustable swivel caster. The braked swivel casters restrain translational movement of the laundry treatment apparatus across a floor. The vertically adjustable swivel caster can help fix the position of the laundry treatment apparatus so as to restrain rocking and twisting of the laundry treatment apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Clifford Theodore Papsdorf, Scott Eugene Mizer, Mark Neil Howdyshell
Abstract: A disposable absorbent article. The disposable absorbent article has a topsheet; a backsheet; and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The disposable absorbent article exhibits a pad peel force of at least about 0.5 N, when measured in accordance with the product integrity test.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 14, 2020
Date of Patent:
July 11, 2023
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Stefan Roell, Thomas Jan Bruehl, Clint Adam Morrow
Inventors:
Julian Richard John Gruzelier, Gillian Meredith Anne Haro, Brett Tom, Wei Gu, Reid Andersen Schlegel, Danvu Nam Nguyen, Calvin Shenghuai Lin, Longfei Zhang