Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company
  • Patent number: 11932468
    Abstract: A consumer product that includes a detergent product and a container, the container including a box, a lid for the box, and a lock to maintain the lid in a closed position, the box comprising the detergent product, and the lock having an actuator moveable from a locking position to an opening position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pakleung, Joost Peter Leflere, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers
  • Patent number: 11932827
    Abstract: The need for a liquid detergent composition suitable for washing dishes, fitting both in-sink as well as direct application habits, which provides reduced smearing when used in direct application dishwashing methods, while having good suds mileage especially under in-sink application habit, and good viscosity, is met by formulating the liquid detergent composition to comprise a surfactant system, which comprises an alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant comprising C13 alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant, the C13 alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant comprising a specific fraction of 2-branched C13 alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant, with a specific distribution of the 2-branching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise Biiliauw, Kristof Crets, Rebecca Ann Langevin, Phillip Kyle Vinson
  • Patent number: 11925698
    Abstract: A water-soluble pouch for hair care with a water-soluble fibrous facing sheet and a water-soluble backing sheet. The facing sheet and backing sheet are joined by a seal along at least a portion of the perimeter. A plurality of hair conditioner prills are disposed within the internal volume. The prills can include both cationic surfactant and fatty alcohol and can have a melting point greater than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Mark William Hamersky, Gemma Zoe Braganza, Eric Paul Granberg, Jorge Max Sunkel, Junichi Yokogi
  • Patent number: 11925541
    Abstract: A package of personal care articles. Each of the personal care articles has a nonwoven substrate as a component. The nonwoven substrate can have a first surface defining a plane of the first surface and a non-regular pattern of a plurality of three-dimensional features extending outwardly from the plane of the first surface. The non-regular pattern can include a first zone of first three-dimensional features and a second zone of second three-dimensional features, wherein in at least one of the first or second zones of the plurality of three-dimensional features has a first three-dimensional feature having a first intensive property and a second three-dimensional feature having a second, different intensive property. The personal care articles can be compressed in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 11926806
    Abstract: A method of cleaning soiled ware in a dishwasher the method having the step of using a water-soluble pouch, the pouch comprising a phosphate-free cleaning composition wherein the cleaning composition comprises loose powder and the composition comprises bleach, metal bleach catalyst and a complexing agent and wherein the complexing agent is slowly released as compared to the bleach catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nevena Lukic, Nilgun Esin Aksoy Abaci, Patrick Firmin August Delplancke, Serdar Acikalin
  • Patent number: 11925535
    Abstract: A tampon including a pledget, a wicking member disposed in direct contact with the pledget, and a withdrawal cord is disclosed. The wicking member is non-coaxially arranged with respect to the withdrawal cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Charles Strong, Henry A. Brown, Evan Joseph Durling, Ryo Minoguchi, Khalid Qureshi, Lymarie Semidey-Flecha
  • Patent number: 11925537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to stranded elastomeric laminates (including bi-laminates and tri-laminates) comprising beamed elastics and may have inventive Dtex-to-Nonwoven-Basis-Weight-Ratios, Dtex-to-Spacing-Ratios, and/or Void-Area-to-Strand-Area-Ratios. The stranded laminates of the present disclosure may be used for disposable absorbent article components (including pant belts) and may comprise inventive bonding arrangements that yield inventive textures and texture arrangements. When the inventive stranded elastomeric laminates are used for pant belts, the pants may have inventive Application-Forces, Sustained-Fit-Load-Forces, and Sustained-Fit-Unload-Forces. Further, when absorbent articles are packaged under compression at inventive In-Bag-Stack-Heights, the stranded elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure maintain their inventive properties and characteristics, including their inventive textures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary D. LaVon, Bret D. Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Joseph A. Eckstein, Vanessa M. Melendez, Monica R. Tournoux, Corinne A. Rowley, Elizabeth J. Bruns
  • Patent number: 11925948
    Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a block thermoplastic elastomeric spring engaged with the actuator to move the actuator as the block thermoplastic elastomeric spring relaxes; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelsey Erin Gibboney, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, David Andrew Dalton
  • Patent number: 11926969
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
  • Patent number: 11926805
    Abstract: An aqueous cleaning composition comprising: a) from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of the composition of a controlled-emulsification system having a turbidity of less than 500, as measured in a homogenized aqueous solution comprising 0.003% by weight of the solution of canola oil and 0.5% by weight of the solution of the controlled-emulsification system; b) a shine polymer comprising at least one monomer comprising a substantially planar 5-7 membered ring, said monomer preferably being selected from the group consisting of vinylpyrrolidone, vinylimidazoline, maleimide, styrene sulfonate and vinylcaprolactam; and c) optionally an antimicrobial agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan Edward Sherry, Nicola John Policicchio
  • Patent number: 11925539
    Abstract: A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differently than the distal ends of the first portion, and wherein the material web forms a portion of the topsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Pietro Cecchetto
  • Patent number: 11926138
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example sanitary tissue products, such as toilet tissue, and more particularly fibrous structures containing a movable surface and methods for making same and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joerg Kleinwaechter, Eric Bryan Bond, Matthew Gary McKee, Hasan Eroglu, Tyler Jacob Werner, Jeffrey Chan, Joshua Thomas Fung, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jean A. Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 11920107
    Abstract: Disclosed are particles comprising polyalkylene glycol, an effervescent system and perfume for hard surface cleaning as well as a composition including these particles. Additionally, a method of making such particles and a method of using such particles for cleaning are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Heidi Simonne Mariette Soyez, Geert Andre De Leersnyder, Marina Jozefa Hermie, Deepak Ahirwal, James Robert Tinlin, Cindy Jean
  • Patent number: 11918445
    Abstract: An absorbent article for personal hygiene comprising: a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core, the backsheet comprising a plastic film having a longitudinal tear strength measured in N/cm; the absorbent core being partially attached to the plastic film of the backsheet by a first glue wherein at least a continuous area of 10 mm in longitudinal direction and 25 mm in transversal direction of the bottom side of the core is unattached to the backsheet by the first glue or by any other means of attachment. In the first glue application area, the absorbent article has a core-to-backsheet peel strength measured in N/cm, such that the core-to-backsheet peel strength ranges from 10% to 40% of the longitudinal tear strength of the plastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, José Mauricio Berrizbeitia
  • Patent number: 11918441
    Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Han Xu, Meganne Frisch, Jaroslav Kohut, Sascha Kreisel, Jiri Kummer, Fang Liu, Michael J. Roddy, Patricia Rolon, Eric R. Schurdak
  • Patent number: 11920111
    Abstract: A fabric care composition including a plurality of particles, wherein each of the particles include a fabric care agent, water, a sugar alcohol polyol, and a modified starch. The modified starch can have a dextrose equivalent from 4 to 20. The fabric care active agent, said water, and said sugar alcohol polyol are dispersed in the modified starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristin Rhedrick Williams, Jaden Scott Zerhusen, Amanee Daarina Salaam
  • Patent number: 11918001
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing a surface care composition, and more particularly dry fibrous structures containing a surface care composition comprising one or more bacteriophage, methods of making same, and methods for treating surfaces using same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Duane Larry Charbonneau, Serena Rae Heyse
  • Patent number: D1016606
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Erica Stoelb, Gina Tesnar
  • Patent number: D1016614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Erica Stoelb, Mary Carol Riffe, Joshua Scott Suhre
  • Patent number: D1017895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Yun Qin Lee