Patents Assigned to Procter & Gamble Company
  • Seamless unitary deflection member for making fibrous structures having increased surface area and process for making same
    Patent number: 11486093
    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: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, John Leslie Brent, Jr., James Michael Singer
  • Artificial intelligence based imaging systems and methods for interacting with individuals via a web environment
    Patent number: 11483372
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence-based systems and methods are described for interacting with individuals via a web environment. A provisioning server is configured to receive a request from a web browser, executing on a client device, for a predefined imaging code stored in a memory of the provisioning server. The provisioning server responds to the request by transferring the predefined imaging code to the web browser. The predefined imaging code is configured to be executed by the client device to load, into a memory of the client device, one or more images of an individual; and determine, based on image analysis of the one or more images of the individual, one or more personal attributes of the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Marc Paul Lorenzi, Zelun Sun
  • Method of independently controlling motion of movers along a path
    Patent number: 11479415
    Abstract: A system and an apparatus capable of independently driving movers are described herein. The system and apparatus includes: a track that forms a path for movers; a plurality of movers movably mounted on the track for moving along the path; and a plurality of drive elements fixedly arranged along the track. The drive elements each have a surface that is oriented to contact a driven member of the movers. The drive elements are configured to sequentially engage the driven member of a plurality of the movers to provide controlled independent motion of the movers along the track. The drive elements may be driven by rotary motors. A method of independently driving movers is also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Clifford Theodore Papsdorf, Jason Lee DeBruler, Stephen Douglas Congleton, Mark Neil Howdyshell
  • Process for producing nonwoven and apparatus suitable therefor
    Patent number: 11479889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and an apparatus for making a fibrous web comprising a plurality of first areas comprising hydroentangled fibers, the first areas being discrete in a machine direction and/or a counter-machine direction, wherein the process comprises subjecting a fibrous web to a first hydroentanglement process directing water jets from a water injection means comprising a plurality of orifices on to the fibrous web; blocking at least one water jet from the water injection means discontinuously by use of a first blocking member positioned between the water injection means and the fibrous web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoxin Liu, Shrish Yashwant Rane, Gerald Alain Viens
  • Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs
    Patent number: 11478385
    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 and a waist gasketing element. 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 pocket. When tested by the Blowout Method Test as described herein, the disposable absorbent article has a Blowout Percent Leakage of less than about 9.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Abhishek P. Surushe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Zachary Aaron Freije, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Christopher E. Kiger, Wolfgang E. Huhn, Mark James Kline
  • Folded disposable absorbent articles
    Patent number: 11478387
    Abstract: Disposable absorbent articles are disclosed herein having a first and second fold line. The disposable absorbent articles have a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent system disposed therebetween. The absorbent system has a first absorbent core and a second absorbent core which may be configured in an offset manner. And, the absorbent system and/or the first and second fold lines may be configured with respect to the absorbent article to effect a caliper change in the folded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen Lebeuf Hardie, Ronda Lynn Glassmeyer
  • Enhanced stability of zinc pyrithione in oxidative environments, such as scalp sebaceous fluid
    Patent number: 11471389
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a personal care composition comprising: (a) A polyvalent metal salt of pyrithione; (b) A metal complex selected from the group consisting of: wherein Y1, Y2, Z1, Z2 are selected from the following groups: —NH2, —NHR11, —NR12R12, —NHCO—R20, —SH, —OR13, —O(C?O)—, phosphate. and wherein at least one of Y1 and Z1 of compound I is —SH, and wherein at least one of Y2 and Z2 of compound II is —SH R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, can independently be H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, phenyl, aryl; R14 is —NH2, —NHCO—CH3, —NHR17, or —NR18R18 R15 is —COOH, —COOR19 R11, R12, R13 R16, R17, R18, R19 can be independently be alkyl, substituted alkyl, phenyl, aryl. and wherein the metal of the complex is selected from the group consisting of zinc, copper, and iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laurie Ellen Breyfogle, Daniel Lawrence Custer, John David Carter, Florencio Zaragoza Dörwald, Jody Laurel Jourden
  • Cell of a brush making device
    Patent number: 11470957
    Abstract: A cell of a brush making device for making at least a part of a toothbrush, having a pin unit having at least one pin, a pin holding sub-unit and a pin guiding sub-unit, the pin having a first section having a first end and a second section having a second end, the first section having a holding structure, and at least one spring section arranged between the first section and the second section, the pin holding sub-unit having a holding structure that is engaged with the holding structure of the pin for fixedly holding the pin, the pin holding sub-unit and the pin guiding sub-unit being arranged for being movable along a first direction towards and away from each other, and the pin guiding sub-unit having a channel for guiding at least a portion of the second section of the pin, the channel being inclined against the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Birk, Holger Port
  • Films including a water-soluble layer and a vapor-deposited inorganic coating
    Patent number: 11473190
    Abstract: Methods for making films including a water-soluble polymeric material and a vapor-deposited inorganic coating are disclosed. The method comprises providing a layer of water-soluble polymeric material and vapor depositing an inorganic coating to at least one surface of the layer of water-soluble polymeric material, wherein the inorganic coating comprises a metal oxide. The method further comprises forming a plurality of microfractures extending along the surface of the inorganic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Srinivas Krishnaswamy Mirle, Vesselin Nikolov Shanov, Rachit Malik, Colin William McConnell
  • Oral care compositions comprising medium length polyphosphates
    Patent number: 11471388
    Abstract: An oral care composition with one or more polyphosphates with about 20 wt % or more of water at a pH of about 5 or less. A dentifrice composition with one or more polyphosphates with about 20 wt % or more of water at a pH of about 5 or less. A mouth rinse composition with one or more polyphosphates with about 20 wt % or more of water at a pH of about 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Niranjan Ramji, Michael David Curtis, Samuel James St. John, Kathleen Pearson, Lina Aurora Witte, Andrea Noland
  • Flexible containers having improved seam and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11472146
    Abstract: A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Andrew Paul Rapach
  • Unitary storage layer for disposable absorbent articles
    Patent number: 11471340
    Abstract: A unitary storage layer for an absorbent article, being formed by at least two sub-layers in which a first outermost sub-layer forms said first surface and includes cellulose pulp fibers and cross linked cellulose fibers and includes less than 5% of SAP by weight of the sub-layer, and a second sub layer which includes cellulose pulp fibers and SAP and is immediately adjacent to said first sub-layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Martin Schnabel, Carola Elke Beatrice Krippner, Norbert Matthias Stelzer, Michele Mazzeo, Dirk Saevecke
  • Low shear stress conditioner composition with spherical gel network vesicles
    Patent number: 11464724
    Abstract: A hair conditioner composition with a gel network that can contain a fatty alcohol and a cationic surfactant having a chloride counterion. The gel network composition can contain a uniform lamellar structure that comprises all vesicles or mostly vesicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean Jianqun Zhao, Toshiyuki Iwata, Zhicai Zhou, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Xiaoru Jenny Wang
  • Absorbent article with sensor
    Patent number: 11464680
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an absorbent article for personal hygiene. More particularly, in one embodiment, the absorbent article absorbent article includes at least one property changing indicator. A detector device is also provided that includes at least one sensor. The sensor is adapted to detect the property change of the property change indicator in the absorbent article. In one particular embodiment, for example, the property changing indicator may include an optical property indicator such as a color change indicator and the sensor may include an optical sensor such as a color sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Blanca Arizti, Erik John Hasenoehrl, Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Mattias Schmidt, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Steven Jeffrey Specht, Grant Edward Anders Striemer
  • Primary package for a solid, single dose beauty care composition
    Patent number: D966088
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Douglas Charles Cook, Shaun Shang-Yun Chan, Scott David Hochberg, Christopher Raymond Lo, Nicole Alisa Renee Lockett Turner, Marilyn Anne Vennemeyer, Sharonda Lee Crawford Washington
  • Primary package for a solid, single dose beauty care composition
    Patent number: D966089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Douglas Charles Cook, Shaun Shang-Yun Chan, Scott David Hochberg, Christopher Raymond Lo, Nicole Alisa Renee Lockett Turner, Marilyn Anne Vennemeyer, Sharonda Lee Crawford Washington
  • Wireless charger
    Patent number: D967014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dominik Langhammer, Fritz Schubert
  • Wireless charger
    Patent number: D967015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dominik Langhammer, Fritz Schubert
  • Pouch
    Patent number: D967714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Siti Aishah Binte Mohamad Hussinee, Christophe Brisson-Vivien
  • Package
    Patent number: D968219
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Anthony Ogg, Jun You, Jason M Earl