Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble Company
  • Method of identifying prebiotics and compositions containing the same
    Patent number: 9271924
    Abstract: A high-throughput, tiered screening method of indentifying test agents that exhibit prebiotic activity on human skin commensal microorganisms and cosmetic compositions that include such agents. The method includes determining the metabolite level of a culture and comparing the metabolite level to a control value. The assay further comprises performing a plate count using the culture when the metabolite level of the culture is greater than its corresponding control value. The plate count results are compared to another control value, and the test agent is identified as a prebiotic agent when the number of colonies present in the plate count assay of the culture is greater than the second control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Anthony Charles Lanzalaco, Duane Larry Charbonneau, Brian Wilson Howard
  • Method of achieving improved hair feel
    Patent number: 9272164
    Abstract: A method of achieving improved hair feel. The method comprises applying to hair a composition comprising: (a) a specific cationic guar polymer; (b) a specific cationic copolymer; (c) an anti-dandruff active; (d) a cosmetically acceptable carrier; (e) a surfactant; wherein the weight ratio of (a):(b) is from about 1000:1 to about 3.5:1; and wherein the sum of (a)+(b) is an amount of from about 0.0001% to about 0.7%, by total weight of the composition. The composition forms coacervate particles upon dilution of the composition with water and the coacervate particles have a squeeze flow viscosity of from about 1 Pa·s to about 100 Pa·s. The percentage of coacervate particles with a floc size of greater than about 20 micron is from about 1% to about 60% and the on-scalp deposition of the anti-dandruff active is at least about 1 microgram/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Scott Johnson, James Anthony Staudigel, Sean Michael Renock, Beth Ann Schubert, Mark William Hamersky
  • Diversion apparatus
    Patent number: 9272850
    Abstract: A diversion apparatus for a manufacturing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eric Shawn Goudy, Robert Paul Cassoni
  • Personal care compositions comprising a pH tuneable gellant and methods of using
    Patent number: 9271912
    Abstract: A personal care composition is disclosed comprising a pH tuneable gellant. The pH tuneable gellant has a formula of: wherein R1 and R2 are aminofunctional end-groups; L1 is a backbone moiety having molecular weight from 14 to 500 g/mol; and at least one of L1, R1 or R2 comprises a pH-sensitive group; wherein R5 is an aminofunctional moiety; L2 is a backbone moiety having molecular weight from 14 to 500 g/mol; and at least one of L2 or R5 comprises a pH-sensitive group; and mixtures of [I] and [II]. The personal care composition may take a variety of forms such as a leave-on composition or an emulsion or may comprise one or more actives or agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Beatriu Escuder Gil, Juan Felipe Miravet Celades, Vicent Josep Nebot Carda, Paul Robert Tanner
  • Methods and apparatus for applying adhesives in patterns to an advancing substrate
    Patent number: 9265672
    Abstract: Aspects of the methods and apparatuses herein involve applying fluids onto an advancing substrate. The apparatuses and methods herein may provide for the application of viscous fluids, such as adhesives, in pre-determined patterns to an advancing substrate. The fluid application apparatus may include a slot die applicator and a substrate carrier. The slot die applicator may include a slot opening, a first lip, and a second lip, the slot opening located between the first lip and the second lip. And the substrate carrier may be adapted to advance the substrate past the slot die applicator as the slot die applicator discharges adhesive onto the substrate. In operation, when a first surface of the substrate is disposed on the substrate carrier, the substrate carrier advances a second surface of the substrate past the slot opening of the slot die applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Darrell Ian Brown, John Andrew Strasemeier
  • Containers for dispensing personal care product
    Patent number: 9265327
    Abstract: A container is configured for selectively dispensing a personal care product. The container includes a body, a drive apparatus, and an elevator. The body at least partially defines a product chamber and a distal opening. The elevator is disposed within the product chamber. Rotation of the drive apparatus results in axial movement of the elevator within the product chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nathaniel David Thulin, Christopher Eugene Bates, David Andrew Dalton
  • Process for manufacturing absorbent sanitary paper products
    Patent number: 9267241
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an absorbent sanitary paper product having a machine direction, a cross-machine direction orthogonal and co-planar thereto, and a Z-direction orthogonal to both the machine- and cross-machine directions is disclosed. The method provides the steps of: providing a first and second network of fibers each having opposing first and second sides where each fiber of the first network of fibers has a longitudinal axis generally disposed within the plane comprising the machine- and cross-machine-directions; applying a first bonding layer to one of the first and second sides of the first network of fibers; applying a first and second second network of fibers to the first bonding layer; and, placing the first and second network of fibers into face-to-face contacting engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Timothy Byrne, Kevin Benson McNeil, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Method of improving the appearance of aging skin
    Patent number: 9265718
    Abstract: A method of improving the appearance of aging skin that includes applying an effective amount of artichoke leaf extract and olive oil extract in combination to a target area of skin that exhibits a sign of aging skin, and compositions that include an effective amount of artichoke leaf extract and olive oil extract in combination. The composition is applied for a period of time sufficient to improve the appearance of the aging skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rosemarie Osborne, Lisa Ann Mullins, Deborah Ruth Finlay
  • Feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising a superabsorbent foam of high swell rate
    Patent number: 9265855
    Abstract: This invention relates to a feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising superabsorbent foams obtainable by foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one blowing agent, at least one crosslinker and at least one surfactant, polymerizing the foamed mixture and drying the polymerized mixture, to the foams and also to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Francis Gray, Achille Di Cintio, Giovanni Carlucci, Antje Ziemer, Anna Kowalski, Ernst Juergen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns
  • Low pH detergent composition comprising nonionic surfactants
    Patent number: 9267095
    Abstract: Detergent compositions and, more specifically, low pH detergent compositions comprising nonionic surfactants that are suitable for washing of clothes, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Delaney, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Cheyne Thomas, Peggy Marion Teyssier
  • Absorbent article having a graphic visible through body contacting surface
    Patent number: 9265671
    Abstract: An absorbent article for feminine hygiene, comprising: a body contacting layer; a garment contacting layer; and an absorbent core disposed between the body contacting layer and the garment contacting layer. The absorbent core has a core edge. The core edge defines a core region within the core edge and an outer region outside the core region. The body contacting layer and the garment contacting layer extend outward into the outer region and joined together in the outer region. The garment contacting layer may have a graphic printed on the body facing surface or the body contacting layer may have a graphic printed on the garment facing surface. The body contacting layer has a first light transmittance so that the graphic can be seen through the body contacting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tsunetoshi Miura, Kensuke Ito, Akiko Sasaki, Yoshiko Nakao, Shuri Kondo, Koichi Tomi
  • Fluid systems and methods for transferring discrete articles
    Patent number: 9266684
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of applying a fluid pressure to a portion of a transfer member of a transfer assembly. The transfer member rotates about a first rotation axis and comprises leading and trailing portions. The portion of the transfer member is rotatable about a second rotation axis between a first position and a second position. The method comprises providing a fluid conduit in fluid communication with the leading or trailing portion of the portion of the transfer member when the portion of the transfer member is in the first position, rotating the portion of transfer member between the first position and the second position, and maintaining the fluid conduit in fluid communication with the same of the leading or trailing portion of the portion of the transfer member after the portion of the transfer member is moved into the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Clifford Theodore Papsdorf, Uwe Schneider
  • Laundry care composition comprising carboxylate dye
    Patent number: 9267098
    Abstract: The present invention relates to laundry care compositions comprising thiophene azo carboxylate dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Gregory Scot Miracle
  • Sheet with a pattern
    Patent number: D749860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sarah Nicole Wolfe, Ashley Marie Schwab, Kimberly Elizabeth Hawes, John Joseph Litchholt, Jason Ashley Wagner
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D749947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Diane Danheiser Powers, Andrea Marie Subler
  • Cosmetic device in charging station
    Patent number: D750225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Eliott Rabe, Faiz Feisal Sherman
  • Filter bag
    Patent number: D750334
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bryan Gabriel Comstock, Dana Paul Gruenbacher, Pamela Marie Morison, Eiro Fukuda
  • Container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D750484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristen Tanya Boston, Jennifer Marie Merchant, Jennifer Rebecca Pohlman, Jason Michael Hargis, Kari Jean Young, Katherine Noelle Perez, Jean Martin Campbell, Charles Morgan McKee, Jr.
  • Label
    Patent number: D750708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nancy Deters Slayton, Greta Berger Dirsel, Christine Ann Kron
  • Applicator tip for cosmetic device
    Patent number: D750772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Eliott Rabe, Faiz Feisal Sherman