Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Patent number: 12240660
    Abstract: A container including a paperboard shell layer and a paperboard core layer. The container has a predetermined removable portion the provides for a separable cap portion. The body portion of the container extends from the shell bottom edge to a lower line of limitation. The body portion includes a lobe beneath the lower line of limitation defining the body. The lobe can be used to tightly fit the cap portion to the body portion after opening the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Logan Taylor Brooks, Kassandra Walburger
  • Patent number: 12240656
    Abstract: A container blank including a paperboard shell layer and a core layer. The container blank has a predetermined removable portion the provides for a separable cap portion after the container blank is erected. The container blank can include a lobe for tightly fitting the cap portion to the body portion of the erected container and or provide for a core rim that is located at a rim distance that is a function of position about the longitudinal axis of the container and or include at least one dosing indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Logan Taylor Brooks, Kassandra Walburger
  • Patent number: 12241041
    Abstract: An acidic liquid fabric care composition that includes: citric acid and/or a salt thereof; a first sulfur-containing compound selected from a sulfate compound, a bisulfate compound, or a combination thereof; a fragrance material; and water. Related methods of making and using such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rachel Morgan Clayton Roeder, Jennifer Lea Rinker, Marc Johan Declercq
  • Patent number: 12241044
    Abstract: A dryer sheet including: a nonwoven fibrous first layer and a nonwoven fibrous second layer joined to the first layer. The first layer has a first layer interior surface. The first layer has a first layer exterior surface area. The second layer has a second layer exterior surface area. The dryer sheet includes a fabric softener composition. Part of the fabric softener composition is on said first layer interior surface and partially penetrating into said first layer. The first layer exterior surface is free from said fabric softening composition over more than about 60% of said first layer exterior surface. The second layer exterior surface is free from said fabric softening active over more than about 60% of said second layer exterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristin Rhedrick Williams, Amaranta Ramirez-Almaraz, Howard Jay Kalnitz
  • Patent number: 12239515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a three dimensional nonwoven comprising a protruded area comprising a first area having a first light reflectance and a second area having a second light reflectance. The three dimensional nonwoven comprises a recess comprising a third area having a third light reflectance, wherein the first light reflectance is different from the second light reflectance, as measured according to Light Reflectance Test. The present disclosure also related to an absorbent article comprising the three dimensional nonwoven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Zhe Liu, Songmei Zhou, Meng Wang, Qi Yang
  • Patent number: 12232673
    Abstract: A cleaning implement for cleaning a target surface is provided that includes an erodible foam adapted to contact a surface to be cleaned and a rheological solid composition comprising a crystallizing agent and an aqueous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Lawrence Lynch, Brandon Philip Illie, Taotao Zhu, Jamie Lynn Dria, Randall Glenn Marsh
  • Patent number: 12232940
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty, and wing adhesive distributed in a way which can provide sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Patent number: 12232936
    Abstract: A tampon product including an applicator with a hollow barrel portion and an ejection plunger within the barrel portion, is disclosed. One or both of the barrel portion and the ejection plunger may have a cylindrical form and be formed of a paper, and have a coating applied to the paper, wherein the coating is not predominately constituted by a material derived from petroleum. The coated paper barrel portion and/or ejection plunger may be manufactured to as to exhibit a static Relative Sliding Resistance Coefficient (CSR) no greater than 0.250 and/or a kinetic CSR no greater than 0.210, for purposes of smooth manufacturing. In combination or alternatively, the coated paper barrel portion and/or ejection plunger may be manufactured to as to exhibit a static Gripping Slip Resistance Coefficient (CGSR) no less than 0.190 and/or a kinetic CGSR no less than 0.170, for purposes of consumer satisfaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Khalid Qureshi, Fang Liu
  • Patent number: 12233139
    Abstract: An oral care composition containing a gel phase, an abrasive, and a fluoride source. The gel network phase contains a fatty amphiphile and phase separation is not visually perceptible in the oral care composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sanjeev Midha, Lawrence Edward Dolan
  • Patent number: 12232938
    Abstract: Absorbent articles containing dark-tinted nonwoven webs are provided. The dark-tinted nonwoven web may include a first plurality of filaments having a diameter between a between about 8 ?m and about 50 ?m, wherein the first plurality of filaments includes a pigment. The dark-tinted nonwoven web may include a second plurality of filaments having a diameter between about 0.3 ?m and about 5 ?m. The first plurality of filaments and/or the second plurality of filaments may include crimped filaments. The dark-tinted nonwoven web may have a CIE L* value of between about 0 and about 25, as measured from a first side or a second side of the nonwoven web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nirosha Seth Wimalasena
  • Patent number: 12233170
    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 5% 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Haines Turner, John Andrew Strasemeier
  • Patent number: 12234431
    Abstract: Described herein is a water-soluble unit dose with a particle having a ratio of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate to Alkylethoxylated Sulfate of greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Michael Joseph Dipaola, Rui Shen, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
  • Patent number: 12234428
    Abstract: Pouches, for example pouches that contain one or more active agents, such as a fabric care active agent or dishwashing active agent and/or detergent compositions, and more particularly pouches employing a water-soluble fibrous wall material, pouches employing a fibrous wall material that ruptures during use, and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Hailing Bao, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 12234427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein the process includes the steps of: (a) forming a mixture by contacting: (i) molten fatty acid; (ii) liquid alkaline ingredient, and (iii) non-ionic surfactant, to obtain a mixture, wherein the mixture includes: (i) partially neutralized fatty acid component; (ii) non-ionic surfactant; and (iii) water, wherein the molar ratio of fatty acid to liquid alkaline ingredient contacted together in step (a) is above 1:1; (b) contacting the mixture obtained in step (a) to a detergent powder to form a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein in step (b) the mixture is contacted to the detergent powder by spraying the mixture at a temperature of greater than 50° C. onto the detergent powder, wherein the detergent powder includes a detergent ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hossam Hassan Tantawy, Eric San Jose Robles, Hossein Ahmadian, Claire Louise Duckitt, Paul Anthony Gould
  • Patent number: 12234074
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a package of one or more articles, the package comprising a substrate comprising at least one film layer wherein the substrate forms a plurality of panels and an opening feature, wherein the panels define an interior compartment, and wherein the one or more articles are disposed in the interior compartment, wherein the substrate has a first tearing force in a first direction and a second tearing force in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the first tearing force is no greater than about 240 gf as measured according to Tearing Force Test, and wherein a ratio of the second tearing force to the first taring force is no less than about 1.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Zhan Cheng, Lei Zhou, Dongpo Huang
  • Patent number: 12234253
    Abstract: Silicone compounds, delivery compositions, compositions, packaged products and displays comprising such silicone compounds, and processes for making and using such benefit agent delivery compositions, compositions, packaged products and displays. Such compositions have improved deposition and retention properties that may impart improved benefit characteristics to a composition and/or situs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Bernard William Kluesener, Rafael Trujillo, Zaiyou Liu, Rebecca Ann Langevin
  • Patent number: D1062461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: U-Ping Loh, YunQin Lee
  • Patent number: D1062462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Muthuraja Subbiah
  • Patent number: D1063610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Sarah Lynne Fisher
  • Patent number: D1064810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Sumaira Latif