Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Substrates having improved crockfastness
    Patent number: 10836196
    Abstract: An ink-printed substrate includes a substrate and water-based ink composition printed on the substrate, and has a Crockfastness-Loss-to-Density Ratio of about ?1.0 to about ?6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alrick Vincent Warner, Timothy Wayne Robertson, Wenbin Li, Charles Douglas Mccurry
  • Spatial imaging of scalp care agents
    Patent number: 10837908
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for measuring scalp care agents on/in skin or other substrate comprising the following steps: selecting a location within the treated area on the skin or other substrate; irradiate treated area using an actinic radiation source; and measure a resulting fluorescent emission of the scalp care agent or a photoconverted scalp care agent using either the actinic radiation source or a second radiation source to excite the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Samuel Wolfe Stofel, J. Frank Nash, Jr.
  • Microfluidic cartridge
    Patent number: 10828658
    Abstract: A microfluidic cartridge is provided. The microfluidic cartridge has a reservoir configured to contain a fluid composition. The microfluidic cartridge has a first face with a first opening and a second opening. The microfluidic cartridge also includes a second face joined with the first face, a third face joined with the second face and opposing the first face, and a fourth face joined with the third face and the first face and opposing the second face. The fourth face has a connector. The microfluidic cartridge has an electrical circuit with a first end portion disposed on the first face and a second end portion disposed on the second face. The microfluidic cartridge also includes a microfluidic die disposed on the second face. The microfluidic die is in electrical communication with the electrical circuit and in fluid communication with the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dana Paul Gruenbacher, William Michael Cannon, James Daniel Anderson, Jr., Richard Lee Warner
  • Method of forming a silicone layer
    Patent number: 10828248
    Abstract: A method of treating the hair including providing a concentrated hair care composition in a foam dispenser. The concentrated hair care composition includes one or more silicones, perfume, and less than 6% high melting point fatty compounds. The method also includes dispensing the concentrated hair care composition from the foam dispenser as a dosage of foam; applying the foam to the hair; and rinsing the foam from the hair. The foam has a density of from about 0.025 g/cm3 to about 0.40 g/cm3 when dispensed from the foam dispenser. The one or more silicones form a silicone layer that has a normalized thickness of deposition of from about 0.001 nm/ppm to about 0.019 nm/ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Kathleen Mary Kaufman, Jeffrey Thomas Grothaus, Dariush Hosseinpour
  • Absorbent articles having channel-forming areas and wetness indicator
    Patent number: 10828206
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core having a longitudinally extending channel-forming area and a wetness indicator. The core wrap comprises a top side and a bottom side, which are attached to each other through areas substantially free of absorbent material, so that when the absorbent material swells upon absorption of a liquid a channel is formed along the area substantially free of absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Laveeta Joseph
  • Dual-chamber package system for absorbent articles
    Patent number: 10827852
    Abstract: A dual-chamber package system for absorbent articles, comprises: a retaining chamber configured to vertically retain a plurality of absorbent articles, a dispensing chamber positioned underneath the retaining chamber, wherein the dispensing chamber has a front side opening, and a divider separating the retaining chamber and the dispensing chamber, wherein at least a portion of the divider is moveable so that a bottommost absorbent article is configured to be dispensed from the front side opening of the dispensing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chao Zhao, Zhensheng Liu, Xuejiao Sun, Kaitian Wang, Lu Ji, Jayson Oxcena Gawaran, Minchen Du, Ankan Mandal, Jie Chen, Mark Andrew Thornton
  • Length-to-waist silhouettes of adult disposable absorbent articles and arrays
    Patent number: 10821035
    Abstract: An array of packages may comprise three or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of an array of three or more absorbent articles may be from about 0.9 to about 1.1 or from about 0.5 to about 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jill Trygier, Vanessa Melendez
  • Fibrous structures
    Patent number: 10822745
    Abstract: A fibrous structure is disclosed. The fibrous structure exhibits a plurality of discrete knuckles arranged in a pattern of repeat units. The repeat units can include a plurality of rows arranged orthogonally in an X-Y plane, each row having a portion of the discrete knuckles, and each discrete knuckle separated from adjacent discrete knuckles in a row by a distance. Each of the discrete knuckles within the repeat unit can have substantially the same shape and size; and wherein the distance between at least two adjacent discrete knuckles in each row are non-uniform such that the repeat unit exhibits varying pillow width distances along the rows in both the X and Y axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryan Dominic Maladen, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Osman Polat, Douglas Jay Barkey
  • Foaming oral care compositions
    Patent number: 10821056
    Abstract: Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions comprising a high level of surfactant. Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions with a high foaming efficiency. Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions with one or more web forming materials, one or more surfactants, and a sugar alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeanette Marie Swartz, Arif Ali Baig, Gregory Charles Gordon, Min Mao, Melissa Cherie Payne, Holly Balasubramanian Rauckhorst, Paul Albert Sagel, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Brian Patrick Croll, Dinah Achola Nyangiro
  • Nonwoven thermal bonding pattern with low fuzz
    Patent number: 10821037
    Abstract: A nonwoven comprising a pattern of thermal bonds with anti-fuzz properties according to at least three and preferably all four of the following conditions: a) the pattern comprises thermal bonds disposed in parallel rows having a pitch angle (P) of from 0.5° to 15° relative to the machine direction or the cross-machine direction; and/or b) the bonding area of all the thermal bonds ranges from 17% to 30% of the area of the nonwoven, and/or c) the pattern comprises larger bonds and smaller bonds having different individual area, and/or d) the pattern comprises elongated bonds having different major directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Olaf Erik Alexander Isele, Donald Raymond Kearney, Nicole Anja Reichardt
  • Method and apparatus for making absorbent structures with absorbent material
    Patent number: 10813794
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making specific absorbent structures with an absorbent layer with absorbent material with therein substantially longitudinally extending strips that are free of absorbent material, using or having thereto a moving endless surface with receptacle(s) with specific longitudinally extending rods; and specific absorbent structures obtained therewith, suitable for absorbent articles, such as diapers and sanitary napkins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hans Adolf Jackels, Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer
  • Laminate webs and absorbent articles having the same
    Patent number: 10813797
    Abstract: A laminate web having a polymer film layer and a nonwoven layer is disclosed. The polymer film layer makes up a first side of the laminate web and the nonwoven layer makes up a second side of the laminate web. The laminate web has a plurality of first elements extending from the polymer film. The web also has a plurality of second elements such as recesses, protrusions, apertures, embossing and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Pietro Cecchetto, Linda Ann Sauer, Shihuang Li
  • Method for in situ mixing of liquid compositions with offset liquid influx
    Patent number: 10814291
    Abstract: Methods for in situ mixing of two or more different liquid compositions in a container by employing one or more liquid influxes that are offset by 1-50° from a longitudinal axis of such container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hongling Chen, Boon Ho Ng, Chong Gu, Qi Zhang, Scott William Capeci
  • Fibrous structures comprising a movable surface
    Patent number: 10814587
    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: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    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
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D899923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tracy Renae Murchison, Carol Beatty
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D900603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tracy Murchison, Amy Kletz, Jeff Raulie
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D901299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Andreina Marcano
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D901300
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elliott Michael Van Skaik, Luis Peraza
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D901301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elliott Michael Van Skaik, Dennis Lee Maclam, Luis Peraza
  • Cleaning article
    Patent number: D901805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Lee Keith, Nicola John Policicchio