Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Patent number: 10648110
    Abstract: A carded nonwoven fibrous web and method of making is provided. The web comprises at least 50%, by weight of the fibrous web, of staple fibers and at least 10%, by weight of the fibrous web, of non-fibrous latex binder, wherein, the staple fibers are autogenously bonded to each other and are bonded to each other by the latex binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Silke Kramkowski, Ekaterina Ponomarenko, Adele Bruell
  • Patent number: 10647088
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 10647948
    Abstract: The need for a fast acting and broad spectrum antimicrobial composition which does not reduce surface shine and does not leave visible residues on the surface, while also providing greater residuality of the actives can be met by formulating antimicrobial compositions as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan Edward Sherry, Molly Pelon Bohlen, Samuel Kimani Njoroge, LaShanda Marie Glenn, Janice Lynn Dhonau, Christopher Todd Morrissey, Jamesina Anne Fitzgerald, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Melinda Phyllis Steffey, Rafael Ortiz, Benjamin Patrick Hale, Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Peter Herbert Koenig, Nicola John Policicchio, Stefano Scialla, Steven Daryl Smith, Matthew Scott Wagner
  • Patent number: 10647535
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing printed laminates or elastic printed laminates are disclosed. The printed laminates may have a first extensible material and a second extensible material. The first extensible material may have a plurality of repeating graphic sets each having a repeating graphic set length. The first extensible material may have a first strain and the second extensible material may have a second, different strain. The second strain may be constant. The first strain may be variable to correspond to the repeating graphic set lengths to a predetermined laminate pitch. The first and second extensible material may be joined together at a point of joinder. An elastic member, such as a plurality of elastic strands, for example, may be positioned intermediate the first and second extensible materials to form an elastic laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Eva G. Nellenbach
  • Patent number: 10646381
    Abstract: Nonwoven webs/nonwoven laminates for use in absorbent articles are disclosed. The nonwoven laminate includes a first nonwoven web with continuous spunbond crimped fibers and a second web joined to the first nonwoven web. A plurality of apertures extend through at least one of the first nonwoven web or the second web. The nonwoven web includes a plurality of continuous spunbond crimped fibers wherein a plurality of apertures extend through the nonwoven web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelyn Anne Arora, Stephanie Niezgoda Moss, Shirdish Poondru, Timothy Ian Mullane, Nathan Ray Whitely, John Lee Hammons
  • Patent number: 10646413
    Abstract: A web material containing one or more active agents and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 10646382
    Abstract: A web of material having a plurality of ink droplets disposed thereon is disclosed. The ink droplets may be configured in a variety of different fashions on the web of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueminami, David Christopher Oetjen, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 10640249
    Abstract: A track system includes a primary transport portion and a secondary transport portion along which a plurality of vehicles can be propelled. Each secondary transport portion includes a unit operation station for performing a transformation on a container or the contents therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryan Andrew Burkhard, Nathan E Moore, Elizabeth Marie Fikes, Daniel Richard Royce, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Christopher Robert Lyman
  • Patent number: 10640736
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions that include alkoxylated esteramines. Related methods of preparation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefano Scialla, Michelle Jackson, Bjoern Ludolph, Sophia Rosa Ebert, Christian Bittner, Frank Hulskotter
  • Patent number: 10640247
    Abstract: Methods of opening and adding expansion materials to containers made from flexible materials. The methods involve forming a partially completed container blank that may have four layers of flexible materials. The partially completed container blank may be opened by separating a portion of the first layer from a portion of the second layer by bending portions of the second, third, and fourth layers toward a first direction; and dosing the partially completed container blank, by adding an expansion material out of a dispenser and into a space disposed between a portion of the first layer and a portion of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Marc Richard Bourgeois, Jun You, Kunie Kolb, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare
  • Patent number: 10639215
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article having a front waist edge, a rear waist edge longitudinally opposing the front waist edge, a longitudinal axis extending from a midpoint of the front waist edge to a midpoint of the rear waist edge, a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core having superabsorbent polymers and a channel network substantially free of the superabsorbent polymers. The channel network having a perimeter channel, a first longitudinal channel inboard of the perimeter channel, a second longitudinal channel inboard of the perimeter channel, and one or more connecting lateral channels. The one or more connecting lateral channels connect one of the first longitudinal channel to the second longitudinal channel or the perimeter channel to the perimeter channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Maja Wciorka, Russell Andrew Hayden
  • Patent number: 10640735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric cleaning and/or treatment compositions as well as methods of making and using same. Such fabric cleaning and/or treatment compositions contain species of metathesized unsaturated polyol esters that have the correct rheology. Thus, such species of metathesized unsaturated polyol esters provide unexpectedly improved softening performance and formulability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Beth Ann Schubert, Luke Andrew Zannoni, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Joseph Jay Kemper, Robert John Strife, Safa Motlagh, Jeffrey John Scheibel
  • Patent number: 10643875
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously filling containers with different fluent products are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of vehicles that are independently routable along a track system to deliver containers to at least one unit operation station for dispensing fluent materials into the containers. The containers receive one or more fluent materials that differ from another in ingredients and/or weight percentage of at least one ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryan Andrew Burkhard, Nathan E Moore, Elizabeth Marie Fikes, Daniel Richard Royce
  • Patent number: 10640903
    Abstract: A process for treating at least one garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Guillaume Bonnet, Nans Elian Ravidat, Annalise Charlotte Richmond, Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte
  • Patent number: 10640354
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously filling containers of different shapes and/or sizes are disclosed. A plurality of vehicles are routable along a track system to facilitate simultaneous delivery of first containers and second containers to different unit operation stations. The first and second containers may differ from one another in outer shape and/or interior volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryan Andrew Burkhard, Nathan E Moore, Elizabeth Marie Fikes, Daniel Richard Royce
  • Patent number: 10639212
    Abstract: An absorbent article having improved softness signals is disclosed. The article may include a topsheet or a backsheet including a nonwoven web. The web may have a basis weight of 30 gsm or less, may be formed of spunlaid fibers including polyolefin and up to 5 percent by weight TiO2, and may be impressed with a pattern of bond impressions to a bond area percentage of at least 10 percent forming a pattern of bonded regions and raised regions. The web may have opacity of 42 or greater; have an average height difference between bonded regions and raised regions of at least 280 ?m; be hydroengorged; and/or have a cross-machine direction tensile strength of 350 gf/cm. A nonwoven web manufactured to have a suitable combination of such features exhibits an enhanced appearance of softness, soft tactile feel and satisfactory mechanical attributes, while being relatively cost effective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Ronald Kanya, W. Andrew Coslett, John C. Parsons, Antonius Lambertus De Beer
  • Patent number: D883080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alexis Leigh VanEtten
  • Patent number: D883087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Carol Riffe
  • Patent number: D883785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Angela Rachelle Clark, Murphy Greene Mongeon, Robert Earl Magness, Graham Clive Hufton
  • Patent number: D883787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Andreina Marcano