Patents Assigned to The Procter and Gamble Company
  • Fasteners having improved comfort
    Patent number: 9241848
    Abstract: A fastening member has inboard and outboard ends, a panel region, an end region, and a stiffening element. The panel region is disposed adjacent to the inboard end and has first and second layers. The first and second layers are joined in a face-to-face orientation. The end region is disposed adjacent to the outboard end and has a fastening element zone and an intermediate zone. The intermediate zone is disposed between the fastening element zone and the panel region adjacent an interface between the panel and end regions. The stiffening element is disposed in the end region and has a stiffness of greater than about 200 N/m. A portion of the stiffening element is disposed between the first layer and the second layer and is joined to the first layer and the second layer. The portion is disposed adjacent to the interface between the panel region and the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark James Kline, Anna Elizabeth Macura, Michael Irwin Lawson, Ronald Joseph Zink
  • Apparatus and process for aperturing and stretching a web
    Patent number: 9242406
    Abstract: Apparatuses and processes for aperturing and stretching a web are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves feeding a web into a nip that is formed between at least one pair of intermeshing rolls. The first roll is a raised ridge rotary knife aperturing roll and the second roll is a ring roll; both rolls comprise ridges and grooves. The first roll comprises a plurality of spaced-apart teeth extending outwardly from the top surface of the ridges, said teeth having tips, wherein the top surface of said ridges are disposed between the tips of said teeth and the bottom surface of said grooves. These apparatuses and processes enable a web to be formed which comprises apertures having greater open area than previously achievable with traditional processes and apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard George Coe, Jill Marlene Orr, Sarah Beth Gross, Robert Karl Isburgh, Leroy Joseph Kocher, Kevin Gerard Muhs, Timothy Ian Mullane
  • Array of sanitary tissue products
    Patent number: 9242775
    Abstract: An array of sanitary tissue products, for example an array of toilet tissue products, wherein one of the sanitary tissue products exhibits a total dry tensile strength that is greater than another sanitary tissue product within the array, and a process for making such an array, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Jennifer Lori Steeves-Kiss, Michael Ricardo Burns, Illya Torrance Thomas, John Paul Brase, Dennis Xavier Legault, Dean Larry DuVal, Mary Windes Burns
  • Absorbent article with improved garment-like character
    Patent number: 9241842
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis, an absorbent core, a pair of elastically elongatable ears and a pair of fastening tabs. The elastically elongatable ears and the fastening tabs have a transverse axis. The ears are connected to the chassis such that the transverse axis of the fastening tabs is located in specific portions of the article. The absorbent core is free of cellulosic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Mark James Kline
  • Fasteners having improved comfort
    Patent number: 9241847
    Abstract: A fastening member has inboard and outboard ends, a panel region, an end region, and a stiffening element. The panel region is disposed adjacent to the inboard end and has first and second layers. The first and second layers are joined in a face-to-face orientation. The end region is disposed adjacent to the outboard end and has a fastening element zone and an intermediate zone. The intermediate zone is disposed between the fastening element zone and the panel region adjacent an interface between the panel and end regions. The stiffening element is disposed in the end region and has a stiffness of greater than about 200 N/m. A portion of the stiffening element is disposed between the first layer and the second layer and is joined to the first layer and the second layer. The portion is disposed adjacent to the interface between the panel region and the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark James Kline, Anna Elizabeth Macura, Michael Irwin Lawson, Ronald Joseph Zink
  • Fabric treatment composition comprising an aminosiloxane polymer nanoemulsion
    Patent number: 9243213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to amino silicone nanoemulsions. More specifically, the present invention relates to amino silicone nanoemulsions that may be used to protect surfaces from being soiled or wetted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicholas David Vetter, Mark Robert Sivik, Kristi Lynn Fliter, Patrick B Whiting, Harry W Broening, Corey James Kenneally
  • Personal care compositions comprising self-assembling peptides
    Patent number: 9241891
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are personal care compositions having at least one oligopeptide self-assembled into nanofibers or macrostructures, wherein the oligopeptide is 2-20 amino acids in length, and wherein the oligopeptide has at least one 0- to 10-amino-acid block of hydrophobic amino acids alternating with at least one 1- to 10-amino-acid block of hydrophilic amino acid residues. The composition may further include a dermatologically acceptable carrier and at least one cosmetic skin care agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Conor David Whitehouse, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Hair thickening compositions and methods of use
    Patent number: 9242123
    Abstract: Provided is a method for increasing hair shaft diameter, the method including applying a hair care composition to a region of the hair, wherein the hair care composition includes from about 0.05% to about 0.5% resorcinol and from about 1% to about 1.7% of a rheology modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Goher Mahmud, Mary Jane Combs, Kelly Rose Kroger Lyons
  • Package of absorbent articles
    Patent number: 9242788
    Abstract: Packages are described that balance the need for efficient packing of a plurality of absorbent articles within the package and a consumer's ability to easily discern and remove individual articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ivano Gagliardi, Florian Phillip Rousselange, Uwe Jürgen Van De Loo
  • Article with tackifier-free adhesive
    Patent number: 9241843
    Abstract: Disposable absorbent articles assembled from a collection of components using an adhesive comprising an amorphous polyolefin composition and a heterophase polyolefin composition comprising amorphous character and crystalline blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William L. Bunnelle, Robert Haines Turner
  • Waistband for an absorbent article
    Patent number: 9241841
    Abstract: A waistband for an absorbent article having a waistband with differential extensibility and/or contraction along the circumference of the waist opening. The waistband may provide a uniform appearance along the circumference of the waist opening. The waistband may have a central zone and at least two outboard zones. The outboard zones of the waistband may be less contracted than the central zone, when the absorbent article is in a relaxed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Michael Dale Trennepohl
  • Disposable absorbent article with sealed absorbent core with substantially continuously distributed absorbent particulate polymer material
    Patent number: 9241845
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article includes a chassis and an absorbent core which is substantially cellulose free. The chassis may contain a topsheet and a backsheet. The absorbent core may be located between the topsheet and the backsheet and may include (i) a storage layer which comprises an absorbent particulate polymer material and has a wearer facing side and an opposed garment facing side, (ii) a first core wrap sheet covering the wearer facing side of the storage layer, and (iii) a second core wrap sheet covering the garment facing side of the storage layer, the first core wrap sheet being joined to the second core wrap sheet along at least one traverse sealing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Harald Hermann Hundorf, Holger Beruda, Horst Blessing, Peter Dziezok, Axel Krause, Mattias Schmidt, Lutz Stelzig
  • Benefit agent containing delivery particle
    Patent number: 9243215
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions comprising said particles, and processes for making and using the aforementioned particles and compositions. When employed in compositions, for example, cleaning or fabric care compositions, such particles increase the efficiency of benefit agent delivery, there by allowing reduced amounts of benefit agents to be employed. In addition to allowing the amount of benefit agent to be reduced, such particles allow a broad range of benefit agents to be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jiten Odhavji Dihora, Ramanan Venkata Ganapathysundaram, Parshuram Gajanan Shukla, Arun Savalaram Jadhav
  • Hair treatment device for providing dispersed colors by light diffraction
    Patent number: 9241555
    Abstract: Hair was coated with polymer-containing fluid and then hot pressed to form a composite of hair and a polymer film imprinted with a nanopattern. Polychromatic light incident on the nanopattern is diffracted into dispersed colored light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Carvell Lamartine, E. Bruce Orler, Richard Matthew Charles Sutton, Shuangqi Song
  • Method for evaluating absorbency of an absorbent article
    Patent number: 9243986
    Abstract: A method of evaluating the absorbency of an absorbent article comprises the steps of: (i) providing an absorbent article comprising a topsheet and having a longitudinal axis, a transverse axis, a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end; (ii) disposing the absorbent article in a flat configuration in a plane defined by the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis of the absorbent article; (iii) twisting the longitudinal ends in opposite directions in planes perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; (iv) twisting the longitudinal ends in directions opposite that of step (iii); (v) applying artificial bodily fluid to the topsheet of said absorbent article during steps (iii) and/or (iv); and (vi) repeating steps (iii) and (iv) after the artificial bodily fluid is applied to the topsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sion Agami, Connie Michelle Dunaway, Amanda Marie Romeu
  • Embossed fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 9243368
    Abstract: Embossed fibrous structures having one or more line element embossments and one or more linear elements and to methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andre Mellin, Jason Merrill Jones, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Kevin Benson McNeil, John Allen Manifold
  • Methods of cleansing skin and rinse-off or wipe-off compositions therefor
    Patent number: 9237995
    Abstract: Methods of cleansing skin comprise the steps of contacting the skin with a cleansing compositions comprising a fatty ester in combination with a lipid, and either rinsing the composition from the skin with water or wiping the composition from the skin with a dry or damp substrate. The cleansing compositions can comprise at least 8%, by weight of the composition, of fatty ester and/or further comprise a nonionic surfactant and less than about 50%, by weight of the composition, of an alcohol solvent such as ethanol, isopropanol, or mixtures thereof. The methods and compositions provide skin cleansing and hydration benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Mannie Lee Clapp, Dennis Eugene Kuhlman, Kenneth Eugene Kyte, III, Daniel Burton Sears, Barbara Kay Williams
  • Two-step mascara product
    Patent number: 9237992
    Abstract: A two-step mascara product that includes a first mascara composition and a second mascara composition. The first mascara composition includes a film-forming polymer dispersed in a first carrier, and the second mascara composition includes a film-former selected from the group consisting of tall oil glycerides, pentaerythrityl rosinate, glyceryl rosinate, hydrogenated versions of these and mixtures thereof. The two-step mascara product also includes a package for storing and dispensing each of the first and second mascara compositions. The package includes a first container configured to store and dispense the first mascara composition and a second container configured to store and dispense the second composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jennifer Clare Hodgetts, Angela Michele Fabula, Thomas Elliott Rabe
  • Fibrous structures
    Patent number: 9238890
    Abstract: A method for making a multiply fibrous structure. The method comprising the steps of: depositing a slurry of pulp fibers onto a Fourdrinier wire running at a first velocity V1; transferring the web from the Fourdrinier wire to at least a first molding member moving at a second velocity, V2, slower than the first velocity, V1. The molding member comprises a substantially continuous relatively low density network at least partially defining a plurality of relatively high density, irregularly shaped, discrete elements situated in an irregular pattern. The embryonic web is partially dried, adhered to a Yankee dryer surface, creped from Yankee dryer and reeled at a velocity, V4, that is faster than that (V3) of the Yankee dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryan Dominic Maladen, Osman Polat, Anja Werth, John Allen Manifold, Andre Mellin, Douglas Jay Barkey
  • Foam dispenser
    Patent number: D747973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: George Scott Kerr, Lucio Frias, Frank Ben Decker, Jennifer Louise Searles, Peter Karl Patzak