Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Patent number: 11642353
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hair care composition comprising polyquaternium-6 and metal pyrithiones as antidandruff agents, wherein the composition is substantially free of glucan gum, nonionic guar gum and hydroxyethylcellulose. The composition of the present invention provides improved deposition of antidandruff agents such as zinc pyrithione on scalp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kristine Suzanne So Yu
  • Patent number: 11642248
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions. The article further includes a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and an ear. The ear includes a laminate having a first nonwoven and second nonwoven and an elastomeric material sandwiched between said first and second nonwovens. The laminate comprises a plurality of ultrasonic bonds. The ear also has a first inelastic region and an elastic region. The ear is joined to the chassis in the first inelastic region, and a fastening system is joined to the ear in the elastic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Todd Douglas Lenser, Joerg Mueller
  • Patent number: 11638665
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent pant having a front belt portion and a rear belt portion is disclosed. The front and rear belt portions are joined at side seams and the rear belt portion has a greater length than the front belt portion. A lower edge of the rear belt portion forms at least in part edges of left and right leg openings to the rear of the side seams. The rear belt portion includes first and second layers of nonwoven web material sandwiching a plurality of laterally extending and laterally pre-strained elastic strands, disposed below the side seams. A first of the plurality of elastic strands differs from a second of the plurality of elastic strands by one or more of amount of pre-strain, tensile modulus, decitex, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jillian Marie Barnes, Ronald Joseph Zink
  • Patent number: 11639581
    Abstract: A layered fibrous structure having a first layer including a co-formed fibrous structure containing a plurality of first filaments and a plurality of solid additives and a second layer different from the first layer, wherein the second layer includes a plurality of second filaments is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Patent number: 11638683
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition includes a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes from 0.1% to 5% of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.5% to 40% of a co-surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.05% to 5% of a natural polysaccharide or a chemically modified natural polysaccharide by weight of the composition; wherein the personal cleansing composition includes a first and second phase, wherein the first phase is an isotropic and micellar surfactant phase; wherein the second phase is a polymer liquid crystalline phase; wherein the composition is free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants; wherein the composition exhibits a yield stress value ?y from 0.005 Pa to 3 Pa; and wherein the composition exhibits a flow viscosity from 3 Pa·s to 100 Pa·s at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1.5 s?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jessa Leigh Meyers, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11639582
    Abstract: Articles, for example multi-ply fibrous structure-containing articles such as multi-ply sanitary tissue products, containing two or more fibrous structure plies, and more particularly to multi-ply articles containing two or more fibrous structure plies having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved bulk and absorbent properties compared to known articles and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Christopher Michael Young, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Patent number: 11633148
    Abstract: Disclosed are hair analysis systems and methods comprising: (a) capturing an image of a user at as captured by a camera and sending the image to a hair analysis processor; (b) analyzing the user's hair condition at the hair analysis processor, based on the image from the camera by using a model that is trained using a plurality of images of users that each feature one or more micro features of a respective user's hair, and providing an analysis result to a display; and (c) displaying at the display the analysis result to the user. The present invention provides the system and the method with an improved sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ankur Purwar, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Raghunandan Melkote Kainkaryam
  • Patent number: 11633310
    Abstract: A sensor system for detecting a property of or within an absorbent article may comprise an absorbent article and an auxiliary article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schober, Lutz Lisseck, Stefan Hubert Hollinger
  • Patent number: 11634838
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property. The nonwoven further has a plurality of apertures, wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and the second region of the microzone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Kelyn Anne Arora, Paul Thomas Weisman, Nathan Ray Whitely
  • Patent number: 11633336
    Abstract: A hair conditioner composition comprising: a. an aqueous carrier; b. from about 0.25 wt % to about 8 wt % of BVE; and c. from about 0.25 wt % to about 8 wt % of fatty alcohol(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean Jianqun Zhao, Heather Lynn Focht, Kristi Lynn Carithers, Susanne Will, Tiffany Tien-Yun Yang, Pallavi Mohan Keole, John Thomas Webber
  • Patent number: 11633072
    Abstract: A container configured to hold a multiphase shampoo composition. The multiphase shampoo composition has a cleansing phase containing a detersive surfactant and a benefit phase containing a gel network. The cleansing phase and benefit phase are visually discrete phases, in physical contact, and form an aesthetic design suspended across at least a portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Brown, Pallavi Mohan Keole
  • Patent number: 11634859
    Abstract: Processes and uses related to treating fabrics with an organic acid, such as citric acid with certain treatment liquors or consumer product treatment compositions. A process to determine the presence of a metal-based residue on a fabric. Uses of a treatment composition or a treatment liquor to rejuvenate a non-white color of a fabric. Processes to demonstrate and/or display the color-rejuvenation benefits of a treatment composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Delaney, Genevieve Cagalawan Wenning, Sol Melissa Escobar, Bryan Douglas Dickerson
  • Patent number: 11633452
    Abstract: A method of treating vaginal dryness by administering a vaginal care composition, which includes an effective amount of a vaginal care agent, to vaginal tissue of a user experiencing vaginal dryness. The vaginal care agent may be selected to specifically treat symptoms of vaginal dryness exhibited by the introitus and/or labia, based on the transcriptomic data of skin cells obtained therefrom. In some instances, the vaginal care composition may be applied to introitus and/or labia with a suitable implement configured for such use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Leo Timothy Laughlin, II, Samantha Chen-Yee Wang, Robert Lloyd Binder
  • Patent number: 11633076
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and optionally Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    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: 11637692
    Abstract: A method for enrolling a node in a network including steps of: providing a hub having a network communications element, established ownership, an owner, a private key and a public key; providing a first node having a network communications element, established ownership status, a network location status, a private key and a public key; scanning an environment to identify active hub devices; selecting a most likely hub device from among identified hub devices; receiving a hub public key from the selected hub; encrypting a string using the received public key; sending the encrypted string; receiving a decrypted copy of the string; validating the hub; sending an authentication request through the hub, the request including the public key of the first node; receiving an encrypted string; decrypting the string using the node's private key; sending the decrypted string through the hub; and updating the network location status of the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Gan Teo, Doug Shean
  • Patent number: 11634668
    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: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Conny Erna Alice Joos, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel
  • Patent number: 11637438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of battery powered electrical appliances or personal hygiene, in particular to a hair removal device such as an electric shaver or epilator as well as an electric toothbrush. A control device for a battery powered electrical appliance for personal hygiene is described, wherein the control device is adapted to cause the battery powered electrical appliance to perform automated contact fritting of a battery contact by controlling the battery powered electrical appliance such that a current pulse exceeding a wetting threshold is applied across the battery contact during a standby period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ferdinand Hermann, Torsten Klemm, Andreas Erndt
  • Patent number: D984276
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Julian Richard John Gruzelier, Emily Green, Kristie Malivindi
  • Patent number: D985129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Naoki Miyamoto, Koji Yamamoto, Hajime Sakai
  • Patent number: D985193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Iswara, Benoit Grandry