Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Deflecting member for making fibrous structures
    Patent number: 10865521
    Abstract: A deflection member that includes a reinforcing member and a plurality of tiles fastened to the reinforcing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Leslie Brent, Jr., James Michael Singer, John Allen Manifold, Min Mao, Steven James Schroeck
  • Fluoride fluorescence probe
    Patent number: 10865218
    Abstract: Methylene blue (MB) derivatives selectively detect F? by desilylation reaction to act as a fluorescent probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yunming Shi, Ross Strand, Tao Yi, Peng Wei, FengFeng Xue
  • Absorbent articles comprising sensors
    Patent number: 10864118
    Abstract: A sensor system for detecting a property of or within an absorbent article may comprise an absorbent article and a sensor. The absorbent article may comprise a garment-facing layer and an absorbent assembly. The sensor may be disposed in and/or on the absorbent article. The sensor may be separable from the absorbent article. The sensor may be configured to sense a change in condition within the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Vijay Rajagopalan
  • Absorbent article package with enhanced opening and recloseability
    Patent number: 10864122
    Abstract: A package containing a stack of folded disposable absorbent articles, the package being formed of a flexible polymeric film defining a cuboid package having top and bottom surfaces and rear, front, first and second side walls. One or more folding tabs are provided proximal the top surface and extending along a width of one or both of the first and second side walls. Each folding tab has a height of between about 10 mm and about 50 mm in a direction perpendicular to the length of the folding tab and comprises a higher bending stiffness than the flexible polymeric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Astrid Annette Sheehan
  • Encapsulation
    Patent number: 10864167
    Abstract: An improved process of making a benefit agent delivery particle and consumer products incorporating such particles are disclosed. The process comprises the steps of providing a first composition of water phase 1, water phase 2 and water phase 3. Water phase 1 comprises water and an initiator; water phase 2 comprises water, a water-soluble or dispersible amine(meth)acrylate or hydroxyl(meth)acrylate and a multifunctional (meth)acrylate. Water phase 3 comprises water, and carboxyalkyl(meth)acrylate and a base or quaternary ammonium acrylate. The first two water phases are combined to prereact the hydroxy- or amine(meth)acrylate and the multifunctional (meth)acrylate to form a multifunctional hydroxyl-amine(meth)acrylate pre-polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hanwei Zhang, Todd Arlin Schwantes, Katie Ann Hobart, Diane Jean Williamson
  • Length-to-waist and hip-to-side silhouettes of adult disposable absorbent articles and arrays
    Patent number: 10864117
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise three or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And the Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a third absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 1.1 to about 0.3. Further, an Array Average Product-Hip-to-Side Silhouette may be from about 1.0 to about 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jeremy Menner, Raymond Scott Hamilton, Luke Robinson Magee
  • Absorbent articles with colored topsheet
    Patent number: 10864119
    Abstract: An absorbent article having a wearer-facing side and garment-facing side, the article comprising: —a nonwoven topsheet on the wearer-facing side, wherein the topsheet has a first color which is not white and comprises thermal bonds; a backsheet on the garment facing-side; an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet; optionally an acquisition layer; and a visual signal disposed on the topsheet or a layer of the article under the topsheet; wherein the visual signal comprises a first portion having a first appearance and a second portion having a different second appearance. The topsheet has an opacity index of at least 28% as measured by the opacity index test as described herein and the visual signal is visible on the wearer-facing side of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Theodore Cory Fites, Nicole Anja Reichardt, Thomas Walenzyk
  • Detergent composition
    Patent number: 10858616
    Abstract: Use of a detergent composition comprising a fatty acid-transforming enzyme to impart suds longevity in a washing process. A method for promoting suds longevity in a washing process for washing soiled articles, comprising the step of: delivering a composition comprising a fatty acid-transforming enzyme to a volume of water to form a wash liquor and immersing the soiled article in the liquor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Denis Alfred Gonzales
  • Water-soluble unit dose articles made from extruded films and containing household care compositions and methods for making the same
    Patent number: 10858619
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to water-soluble unit dose articles made from a combination of water-soluble films and containing household care compositions that are at least partially enclosed by the water-soluble films in at least one compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Amanee Daarina Salaam, Norman Scott Broyles, Emily Charlotte Boswell, Pier-Lorenzo Caruso, Michaela Monika Czupik
  • Shaped nonwoven
    Patent number: 10858768
    Abstract: A spunbond nonwoven fabric. The fabric has a first surface and a second surface and at least a first and second visually discernible zone on at least one of the first and second surface, each of the first and second zones having a pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features defining a microzone. Each microzone has a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property, and wherein the difference in values for an intensive property for at least one of the microzones in the first zone is different from the difference in values for the intensive property for at least one of the microzones in the second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Hair conditioning composition comprising cyclic compounds and compounds having at least three head groups
    Patent number: 10857086
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hair conditioning composition comprising: a cationic surfactant; a high melting point fatty compound; a cyclic compound selected from the group consisting of a vitamin B3 compound, a xanthine compound, a salicylic acid ester, and mixtures thereof; a compound having at least three large head groups; and an aqueous carrier. The composition of the present invention provides improved hair manageability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mui Siang Soh
  • Method and apparatus for adjusting and maintaining a position of a cutting surface of a perforating apparatus
    Patent number: 10857690
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to adjusting and maintaining a position of a cutting surface used to create lines of weakness for rolled products. A perforating apparatus includes a housing rotatably supported by a frame, wherein the housing is adapted to rotate about a first axis. A support member including a first cutting surface is rotatably supported by the housing, wherein the support member is adapted to rotate about a second axis offset from the first axis. A roll including a second cutting surface is positioned adjacent the support member, wherein the roll is adapted to rotate about a third axis. The second cutting surface is adapted to contact the first cutting surface as the roll rotates about the third axis. The perforating apparatus is configured such that the functions of adjusting the position of the first cutting surface and holding the first cutting surface in a fixed position are separate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Gustav André Mellin, Michael Devin Long
  • Barrier patch with soluble film and methods of improving skin appearance
    Patent number: 10857076
    Abstract: A multilayer beauty care product or method is provided. The beauty care product has a water soluble film zone that includes a water soluble film forming polymer and a cosmetic composition with an effective amount of a skin active agent. The product also has a barrier patch having a backing layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive zone. The adhesive zone and the water soluble film zone are continuous, discontinuous, or a combination thereof. The product exhibits a dynamic modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Jack Alan Hunter, Michael Joseph Roddy, Elizabeth Anne Wilder
  • Fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 10858785
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that greater than about 50% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structure exists in pores of radii of from about 101 ?m to about 200 ?m, and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Detergent compositions
    Patent number: 10858618
    Abstract: A detergent composition and processes for making and using same. A detergent composition that includes cellulose fibers to improve the deposition and/or retention of encapsulated benefit agent onto fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez-Prieto, Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn, Johan Smets
  • Absorbent core wrap with a low basis weight nonwoven in the bottom layer
    Patent number: 10857255
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes an absorbent core having an absorbent material enclosed in a core wrap having a top layer and a bottom layer. The bottom layer of the core wrap comprises a nonwoven comprising synthetic fibers, which has a basis weight from about 6 g/m2 to about 10 g/m2 and the nonwoven has a static coefficient of friction as measured in cross-machine direction of no more than 0.40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefan Flöter, Geeske Gratzel, Torsten Lindner
  • Microfluidic ejection element and method of operation of a microfluidic ejection element having a simplified interface
    Patent number: 10857253
    Abstract: A control circuit for a thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element and a method of dispensing a fluid composition from the same is provided. The thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element includes a plurality of nozzles and a thermal actuator associated with each nozzle, and a control circuit that includes: a logic circuit that increments through a pre-determined sequence, wherein the sequence is defined by the physical layout of the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element; a first input in electrical communication with the logic circuit; a second input in electrical communication with each thermal actuator, wherein the first input and second input are used to select and energize each thermal actuator on the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephan Gary Bush, John Glenn Edelen, Viren N. Patel, Michael Anthony Marra, III
  • Aerosol bottle for dispensing a foam hair care composition
    Patent number: D904895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Raymond Lo, Marek Mikovec
  • Single-dose laundry detergent unit
    Patent number: D904899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Wee Hau Tan, Yaan Thomas Kinally
  • Handle for holding a cleaning device
    Patent number: D905366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Christopher Hagee, Glenn Allen Bradbury