Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company
  • Patent number: 11957556
    Abstract: An absorbent structure comprising one or more absorbent layers wherein the absorbent structure exhibits a first cycle Peak Force compression between about 30 grams and about 150 grams. The absorbent structure further exhibits a fifth cycle dry recovery energy between 0.1 mJ and 2.8 mJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Clint Adam Morrow, Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11957555
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided, the absorbent article comprising a nonwoven material. The nonwoven material comprises core/sheath bicomponent fibers wherein the core is formed of PET resin. The present disclosure also provides a wipe comprising a nonwoven material, the nonwoven material comprising core/sheath bicomponent fibers wherein the core is formed of PET resin. The PET has less than 150 ppm of antimony.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dirk Saevecke, Otto Virtanen
  • Patent number: 11958706
    Abstract: A consumer width sized roll comprising wound web material comprising a tail. The tail may comprise a bonding material. The bonding material may be arranged in a novel pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bret A. Sims, Dan T. Anderson, Brent M. Borovskis, Victoria Grace Strain, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Patent number: 11959225
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising spunbond filaments and solid additives and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Patent number: 11959229
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel combination of slip stick coefficient of friction and compressibility properties and methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
  • Patent number: 11950990
    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 leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Zachary Aaron Freije, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Andrew James Sauer, Christopher Erin Kiger, Sara Lyn Giovanni
  • Patent number: 11952722
    Abstract: A roll of sanitary tissue product that includes a shaped line of weakness, wherein the roll of sanitary tissue product exhibits a roll compressibility of from about 7%, and the sanitary tissue product has a Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Strength of about 8 g to about 20 g, as measured by the Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Force Method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Angela Marie Leimbach, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Patent number: 11952696
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a closed drying air circuit and a drum in communication with the closed drying air circuit. A condenser is in communication with the closed drying air circuit. The condenser includes a cooled water inlet that directs cooled water into the heated air to remove moisture from the heated air. The condenser includes a condenser water outlet for egress of water from the condenser. The cooled water inlet of the condenser is configured to receive water from a tap water source. A thermoelectric apparatus having a cold side flow device arranged between the cooled water inlet of the condenser and the tap water source is included. The cold side flow device is configured to receive tap water from the tap water source and cool the tap water below a tap outlet temperature using the thermoelectric device before the tap water enters the cooled water inlet of the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Benny Leung, Howard Jay Kalnitz, Jason Allen Stamper, Carlos Amador Zamarreno
  • Patent number: 11951657
    Abstract: A process for forming particles. The process includes a step of entraining gas into a precursor material, wherein the gas includes from about 50 vol % to about 75 vol % carbon dioxide and from about 25 vol % to about 50 vol % other constituents. The precursor material is deposited onto a moving conveyor. The precursor material is cooled to form a plurality of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ke Ming Quan, Richard Albert Huddleston, Kristin Rhedrick Williams, Adam Michael Tunis
  • Patent number: 11952723
    Abstract: Embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and more particularly to embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2375 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean Total Dry Tensile of less than 1130 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten (NMN) Knobloch
  • Patent number: 11952727
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example toilet tissue, having a surface including a plurality of fibrous elements, such as a plurality of hydroxyl polymer filaments that exhibit an average fiber diameter of less than 2 ?m as measured according to the Surface Average Fiber Diameter Test Method such that the fibrous structure exhibits a Dual Surface Glide Value of less than 17.7 g as measured according to the Glide Test Method—3 Inch Sample and method for making same is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Gary McKee, Brooke Marie Woods, Joerg Kleinwaechter, William Ryan Falta, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 11952555
    Abstract: Fabric treatment compositions that include benefit agent capsules and diaminostilbene brightener. Methods of using the same. Wash water containing such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Conny Erna Alice Joos, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel
  • Patent number: 11952204
    Abstract: Methods of making an aerosol container having an open neck at the top and a closed end bottom longitudinally spaced therefrom. The container has a valve cup and bag. The valve cup and bag are integral. The valve cup is attachable to the neck in sealing relationship. This arrangement provides for propellant to be disposed intermediate the container and bag. Product can be disposed in the bag for selective dispensing by a user actuated valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Douglas Bruce Zeik, Matthew Aaron Neumann, Scott Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 11952724
    Abstract: Paper towel rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Basis Weight, Roll Density, and Roll Diameter, such that the paper towel rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel paper towel rolls and marketing such novel paper towel rolls are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 11950737
    Abstract: A cleaning article. The cleaning article has tufts of tow fibers. At least some of the tufts are unequally spaced from adjacent tufts, to provide improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface. The tufts may be disposed in rows, which are unequally spaced from adjacent rows. The cleaning article may be made by cutting out spaces between tufts from a precursor sheet and attaching the precursor sheet to a carrier sheet. The cleaning article may be made by cutting a precursor sheet having tufts into discrete portions. The discrete portions are bonded to a carrier sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Nicola John Policicchio
  • Patent number: 11952725
    Abstract: Fibrous structures having a surface pattern of a continuous knuckle region and a plurality of discrete pillow regions such that the fibrous structures that retain sufficient Surface Void Volume as measured according to the Surface Void Volume Test Method described herein during use by consumers to provide consumer desirable cleaning performance after bowel movements without providing undesirable negative impacts to softness as measured according to the Emtec Test Method and/or the Plate Stiffness Test Method both described herein, methods for making same, and molding members used in such methods, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Ellis Bailey, Ward William Ostendorf, Anthony Paul Bankemper, Douglas Jay Barkey, J. Michael Bills, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Patent number: 11952560
    Abstract: Fabric treatment compositions that include benefit agent capsules and biphenyl brightener. Methods of using the same. Wash water that includes such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Conny Erna Alice Joos, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel
  • Patent number: 11952252
    Abstract: Techniques regarding multi-hole nozzle architectures and/or manufacturing methods are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a multi-hole nozzle component for a filling machine, the multi-hole nozzle component having a periphery, an inlet side having a surface, and an outlet side having a surface. The nozzle component can further comprise a plurality of separate passageways extending through the nozzle component from adjacent its inlet side to its outlet side. Also, the passageways can form a plurality of openings in the surface of the outlet side of the nozzle component. Further, each of the separate passageways can have a diameter of from about 1 mm to about 3 mm and a length of from about 5 mm to about 1.5 m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Ryan Scott Goecke
  • Patent number: D1022187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emma Lynn Sartini, Huan Yan, Fancheng Wang, Sijia Wang, Xiaoxin Liu, Nikole Fey Friend, Jessica Owen Stephens, Eric Albert Sillies, Ashley Marie Schwab
  • Patent number: D1022189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emma Lynn Sartini, Huan Yan, Fancheng Wang, Sijia Wang, Xiaoxin Liu, Nikole Fey Friend, Jessica Owen Stephens, Eric Albert Sillies, Ashley Marie Schwab