Patents Assigned to The Procter and Gamble Company
  • Patent number: 9333157
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bar soap composition that contains zinc pyrithione (ZPT) and a metal-pyridine oxide complex, preferably a zinc-pyridine oxide complex. The bar soap may be characterized by enhanced discoloration resistance, extended shelf life, and/or increased anti-microbial efficacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chunpeng Jiang, Brian Joseph Limberg, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Juan Wang, Zhe Liu, Enjun Cheng, Casey Patrick Kelly, Jason Edward Cook, Patrick Christopher Stenger
  • Patent number: 9334465
    Abstract: The structuring ability of fluid compositions comprising an amido-gellant or HEUR polymeric structurant can be improved with the addition of a cosmotrope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Vincent Josep Nebot Carda, Beatriu Escuder Gil, Juan Felipe Miravet-Celades
  • Patent number: 9333120
    Abstract: A simple disposable absorbent article including a chassis and an absorbent assembly. The chassis includes a water-impermeable sheet folded laterally inward at both of its side edges to form opposing side flaps. Each side flap is attached to the interior surface of the chassis adjacent to its end edges. Each side flap has a longitudinally extending elastic gathering member attached adjacent to its proximal edge. The absorbent assembly is smaller in width and in length than the chassis. The side edges and end edges of the absorbent assembly may be disposed proximally relative to the respective side edges and end edges of the chassis. The absorbent assembly includes an absorbent core that may contain superabsorbent particles, which may be contained inside pockets. The chassis may be extensible. The absorbent assembly may be in a cruciform pattern to the chassis to allow portions of the chassis to extend laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary Dean Lavon, Kevin Michael Smith, Michael Patrick Hayden
  • Patent number: 9333119
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ronald Joseph Zink, Sarah Marie Wade, Tina Marie Glahn, Rachael Eden Walther, Darrell Ian Brown, Gary Dean LaVon, Nicholas Paul Goyette, Kaoru Ishihara, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Diana Woehnl Juratovac
  • Patent number: 9327044
    Abstract: A method for delivering a volatile fluid in a continuous manner, over a period of time and without leakage, to the atmosphere is disclosed. The method includes activating a device by breaching a semi-rigid sheet to release volatile fluid to the atmosphere. The device includes a flexible sheet and a semi-rigid sheet that are sealed along their edges to form a closed pocket or reservoir for containing a volatile fluid. The semi-rigid sheet is sealed on a first side to a flexible sheet and sealed on a second side to a vapor permeable membrane. The semi-rigid sheet contains a volatile fluid in the reservoir during storage, preventing contact of the volatile fluid with the vapor permeable membrane before the device is activated. The semi-rigid sheet has a differential score to guide the bounds of an opening that is formed upon activation. Once activated, the vapor permeable membrane provides continuous emission of a volatile fluid from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jason John Olchovy, Stefano Deflorian, Livio Sordo Sicheri, Walter Sordo, Ian Roderick Jaye
  • Patent number: 9328316
    Abstract: Compositions having a mixture of functional perfume components are provided. In one embodiment, the functional perfume components comprise iso-nonyl acetate, dihydro myrcenol, linalool, and benzyl acetate. In one embodiment, the functional perfume component may be present in an amount from about 75% to about 100%, by weight of said mixture, wherein said composition is substantially free of a VOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Louis Diersing, Rhonda Jean Jackson, George Kavin Morgan, III, Jason John Olchovy
  • Patent number: 9326896
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for making an absorbent core comprising a nonwoven core cover that offers improved performance on holding back fine particulate material after having been exposed to external strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jochen Schäfer, Mattias Schmidt, Nicole Graf
  • Patent number: 9330067
    Abstract: A nonwoven web having printed thereon a colorant and/or a composition providing a skin health benefit. The nonwoven web can be a three-dimensional, fluid pervious, polymeric web. The nonwoven web can comprise apertures. The apertures are defined in a first surface of the nonwoven web in a first plane of the nonwoven web, and extend in sidewall portions to a second surface in a second plane of the nonwoven web. A colorant or lotion composition can be deposited on at least a portion of the second surface of the nonwoven web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueminami, David Christopher Oetjen, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 9327046
    Abstract: A device comprises a delivery engine comprising a volatile composition and a microporous membrane, and an evaporation assistance element. In some embodiments the device includes a fan is configured to move a volume of air over the microporous membrane to facilitate evaporation of the volatile composition into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ronald David Turner, Erik John Hasenoehrl, Jeannine Rebecca Bahm, Dana Paul Gruenbacher
  • Patent number: 9327867
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers having gradients where at least one of a plurality of physical characteristics that are perceptible via tactile interaction with an exterior surface of the container are varied across the exterior of the container. The flexible containers may permit users to perceive viscosity or relative thermal condition of contained product in discrete zones or regions of the container through one or more outer surface of the container without direct interaction with the product, or vary hardness or softness of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Andrew Paul Rapach
  • Patent number: 9326899
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ronald Joseph Zink, Sarah Marie Wade, Tina Marie Glahn, Rachael Eden Walther, Gary Dean LaVon, Nicholas Paul Goyette, Kaoru Ishihara, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Diana Woehnl Juratovac
  • Patent number: 9327888
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue products, for example toilet tissue products, and arrays thereof associated with non-textual indicia, such as character representations exhibiting active poses, that are psychologically matched to intensive properties of the sanitary tissue products; processes for making such an array of sanitary tissue products are provided, and marketing articles associated with displaying and/or advertising an array of sanitary tissue products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Jennifer Lori Steeves-Kiss, Michael Ricardo Burns, Mary Windes Burns, Illya Torrance Thomas, John Paul Brase, Dennis Xavier Legault, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: 9326922
    Abstract: Oral compositions containing high purity barium sulfate particles, preferably greater than 97.5% barium sulfate by weight of the particles, and an orally-acceptable carrier are effective for polishing or cleaning teeth and also exhibit enhanced fluoro compound and/or peroxide stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sanjeev Midha, George Endel Deckner, Lawrence Edward Dolan, Eva Schneiderman
  • Patent number: 9326898
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an array of front-fastenable disposable wearable absorbent articles with differing ear shapes. Each different ear shape corresponds to a body shape and activity level for a particular wearer. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a first article, sized for a wearer of a first size, has a first side ear with a first side ear upper edge with concave portions, and a second article, sized for a wearer of a second size that is greater than the first size, has a second side ear with a second side ear upper edge with convex portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark James Kline, Ronald Joseph Zink, Selin Mano Mariadhas
  • Patent number: 9327043
    Abstract: A device for delivering a volatile fluid in a continuous manner, over a period of time and without leakage, is disclosed. The device includes a flexible sheet and a semi-rigid sheet that are sealed along their edges to form a closed pocket or reservoir for containing a volatile fluid. The semi-rigid sheet is sealed on a first side to a flexible sheet and sealed on a second side to a vapor permeable membrane. The semi-rigid sheet contains a volatile fluid in the reservoir during storage, preventing contact of the volatile fluid with the vapor permeable membrane before the device is activated. The semi-rigid sheet has a differential score to guide the bounds of an opening that is formed upon activation. Once activated, the vapor permeable membrane provides continuous emission of a volatile fluid from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jason John Olchovy, Stefano Deflorian, Livio Sordo Sicheri, Walter Sordo, Ian Roderick Jaye
  • Patent number: 9327223
    Abstract: A collapsible device for filtering air comprising a base, a fan functionally attached to the base, an air filter releasably attached to the base, and a substantially air impermeable outer sleeve is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dana Paul Gruenbacher, Steven James Schroeck, Jessica Elizabeth Leon, Paolo Dal Bo, Uwe Schober
  • Patent number: 9328440
    Abstract: Disposable articles that include fibers formed from compositions comprising thermoplastic polymers and waxes, where the wax is dispersed throughout the thermoplastic polymer. The fibers containing the wax can define at least a portion of a nonwoven and can be utilized in one or more of the following article layers: liquid pervious layer, liquid impervious layer, and absorbent core disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Maxwell Allen, Jr., Eric Bryan Bond, Isao Noda, Ronald Thomas Gorley, Olaf Erik Alexander Isele
  • Patent number: 9326646
    Abstract: A fibrous structure having a total dry tensile strength of greater than about 59 g/cm and at least one embossed ply having a surface thereof is disclosed. The surface has a surface area comprising from about 10.0 percent to about 20.0 percent line embossments. Also, a fibrous structure having at least two plies is disclosed. One of the two plies has a total dry tensile strength of greater than about 59 g/cm and at least one embossed ply having a surface thereof. The surface has a surface area comprising from about 10.0 percent to about 20.0 percent line embossments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: André Mellin, Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Jason Merrill Jones
  • Patent number: 9328319
    Abstract: An aqueous fabric care composition having perfume micro-capsules. The smell provided by the freshly formulated composition and the same composition after storage has a limited character and intensity change. The composition has from about 0 wt % to about 5 wt % of anionic surfactant, from about 0 wt % to about 3 wt % of cationic surfactant, from about 0 wt % to about 3 wt % of a non-ionic surfactant, from about 0.01 wt % to about 15 wt % of perfume micro-capsules and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nans Elian Ravidat, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere, Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn
  • Patent number: D755380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Widalys Luz De Soto-Burt, Nanda Christine Almond