Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Fibrous nonwoven coform web structure with visible shaped particles, and method for manufacture
    Patent number: 10801141
    Abstract: A fibrous nonwoven structure formed of a blend of cellulose pulp fibers and melt spun polymer filaments is disclosed. The structure may include a distribution of a plurality of macroscopically visible shaped particles of substantially similar size and shape, included in the blend. The structure may also include outer scrim layers formed of melt spun polymer filaments. A method of manufacturing the fibrous nonwoven structure is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mario Castillo
  • Concentrated shampoo dosage of foam for providing hair care benefits
    Patent number: 10799434
    Abstract: Described herein is a dosage of foam including from about 5 cm3 to about 70 cm3 of the foam. The foam includes from about 0.5 g to about 4 g of a detersive surfactant; from about 0.001 g to about 4 g propellant; a foam density of from about 0.10 g/cm3 to about 0.35 g/cm3; a bubble size distribution having an R32 of from about 5 ?m to about 100 ?m; and a yield point of from about 5 Pa to about 100 Pa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jazmin Veronica Torres Rivera, Eric Scott Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth Mullen, Sean Michael Renock, Todd Ryan Thompson, Jean Jianqun Zhao, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr.
  • Disposable absorbent articles
    Patent number: 10799402
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a first and second plurality of elastics. The first plurality of elastics may be disposed in a front and a crotch region. The second plurality of elastics may be disposed in a back region and the crotch region. The first and second plurality of elastics may be linear and parallel with a transverse axis of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Margaret Henderson Hasse, Luke Robinson Magee
  • Apertured fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 10792229
    Abstract: Apertured fibrous structures and more particularly apertured fibrous structures containing one or more fibrous elements, for example filaments, containing one or more fibrous element-forming materials and one or more active agents that are releasable from the fibrous element when exposed to conditions of intended use, and methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Sean Pratt, Min Mao, David Charles Oertel, Janine Anne Flood, Tom Edward Dufresne, Paula A. Chmielewski, Andreas Josef Dreher, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour
  • Apparatus for sensing environmental pH changes
    Patent number: 10794850
    Abstract: A sensor comprises: an electrically comprises a switchable polymeric element. The polymeric element has at least a first electrical state and a second electrical state and is switchable between the first and second electrical states as a function of predefined environmental pH changes. The sensor comprises a pH sensitive polymeric matrix and a plurality of conductive particles embedded in the polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Grant Edward Striemer
  • Unitary deflection member for making fibrous structures and process for making same
    Patent number: 10794004
    Abstract: A deflection member. The deflection member can be a unitary structure having a plurality of discrete primary elements and a plurality of secondary elements. At least one of the secondary elements can be an elongate member having a major axis having both a machine direction vector component and a cross machine direction vector component. In an example, the secondary elements can be arranged in a Voronoi pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, John Leslie Brent, Jr., James Michael Singer, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Stable liquid detergent composition containing a self-structuring surfactant system
    Patent number: 10793810
    Abstract: A stable liquid detergent composition containing a self-structuring surfactant system, where without using external structurants, the liquid detergent composition exhibits good shear thinning properties while maintaining stability under high shear. A liquid detergent composition comprising a linear alkyl benzene sulfonate, a zwitterionic and/or amphoteric surfactant and optionally polyethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Liangjing Fang, Ming Tang, Karl Shiqing Wei, Peng Qin, Ting He
  • Absorbent article with leg cuffs
    Patent number: 10792198
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Andrew James Sauer, Aaron Duane Seitz
  • Container systems
    Patent number: 10793324
    Abstract: Container systems and closure systems having lids with a closed position, an intermediate open position, and a fully open position. Processes related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicolas Robert Nuno Cromarty Oliveira, Thierry Christian Francis Dagnelie, Vincent Hubert M. De Wilde, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pak Leung, Raf Gustaaf Alfons Degeyter, Katrien De Malsche, Annalise Charlotte Richmond, David Brian Dawson
  • Package of disposable wipes
    Patent number: 10791887
    Abstract: A disposable wipes package and a package for disposable wipes comprising improved fitments to aid removal of wipes from within a package is disclosed herein. The dispensing fitment is formed of a single material and comprises a frame for securing to a package of disposable wipes. The frame has an oval, rectangular, diamond or ring shaped rim with an internal wall defining an opening through which wipes may be dispensed. A first petal is provided having a free end extending into an opening from a first side of the frame. A second petal has a free end extending into an opening from a second side of the frame towards the first petal to define a gap between the free ends of the first and second petals. The opening includes the gap and one or more orifices and occupies between 40% and 90% of the area within the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Norman Simmons, Lawrence Andrew Schumacher
  • Substrates and laminates for absorbent articles
    Patent number: 10792199
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides substrates and laminates for absorbent articles and absorbent articles comprising the substrates or laminates. The substrates and laminates may have three-dimensional elements, land areas, and increased permeability regions intermediate at least some of the land areas and at least some of the three-dimensional elements. The increased permeability regions may be positioned adjacent to the three-dimensional elements. The land areas may have a first basis weight and the increased permeability regions may have a second basis weight. The first basis weight may be greater than the second basis weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelyn A. Arora, John L. Hammons, Donna R. Hill
  • Rolled fibrous structures comprising encapsulated malodor reduction compositions
    Patent number: 10792384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fibrous structure including one or more encapsulated malodor reduction compositions and methods of making and using such a fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: LaTisha Evette Salaam-Zayid, Jose Enrique Betancourt, Judith Ann Hollingshead, Laura Lynn McElroy, Nancy L. Schuchter
  • Methods for inhibiting conversion of carnitine to trimethylamine (TMA)
    Patent number: 10786479
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting the conversion of carnitine to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual comprising administering to the individual one or more compositions comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I): Wherein the compound is administered in an amount effective to inhibit conversion of carnitine to TMA in the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Stanley Leon Hazen, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, John August Wos, David Thomas Stanton, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Michael Reilly, Angela Jane Deutsch, Jodie Michele Reed, David Blair Cody
  • Absorbent article with profiled acquisition-distribution system
    Patent number: 10786403
    Abstract: An absorbent article (20) having an absorbent core comprising at least about 80% of superabsorbent polymers (SAP) by weight of its absorbent material. An acquisition-distribution system (ADS) (50) is at least partially disposed between the absorbent core and the topsheet. The ADS extends in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article at least from a point A1 disposed at a distance D from the front edge to a point A2 disposed at a distance D from the back edge of the article, D being equal to 32% of the length L of the article. The ADS has a basis weight which may be at least 20% lower at the point A2 than at the point A1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Manuela Ines Schneider, Gemma Baquer Molas, Nguyen Huynh-Trang Le
  • Thick and absorbent and/or flexible toilet tissue
    Patent number: 10786972
    Abstract: Thick and absorbent and/or flexible toilet tissue and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 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, Brooke Marie Woods
  • Particulate laundry softening wash additive comprising a branched polyester
    Patent number: 10787629
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water-soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight of a branched polyester; and an optional deposition aid; wherein each of the particles can have a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Bernard William Kluesener, Heather Anne Doria, Lenae Virginia Johnson
  • Apparatus for sensing environmental changes
    Patent number: 10788437
    Abstract: A sensor system comprises: a communications element and a switch configured to enable or disable the communications element. The switch comprises a switchable polymeric element. The polymeric element has at least a first electrical state and a second electrical state and is switchable between the first and second electrical states as a function of predefined environmental changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Grant Edward Striemer
  • Apparatus for sensing environmental moisture changes
    Patent number: 10788439
    Abstract: A sensor comprises: an electrically comprises a switchable polymeric element. The polymeric element has at least a first electrical state and a second electrical state and is switchable between the first and second electrical states as a function of predefined environmental changes. The sensor comprises a polymeric matrix and a plurality of conductive particles embedded in the polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Grant Edward Striemer
  • Package made of a laminate material
    Patent number: 10786404
    Abstract: A flexible gusset package containing a plurality of items is described. The package has a front surface having no seam; a rear surface opposite the front surface; a first surface adjacent the front and rear surfaces; a second surface having a closing seam and being opposite the first surface; an opposing pair of third and fourth surfaces respectively adjacent the first and second surfaces, the third and fourth surfaces having a first and second side seams, respectively; a pair of side gussets located in the third and fourth surfaces, respectively; and a pair of closing gussets located in the second surface, wherein the surfaces cooperatively define an interior compartment of the package, wherein the package is a laminate having a film layer facing the interior compartment and a paper layer, and wherein the second surface includes an area of the film layer where the closing seam is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Enjun Cheng, Christian Kohlweyer
  • Absorbent article with profiled acquisition-distribution system
    Patent number: 10786402
    Abstract: An absorbent article (20) having an absorbent core comprising at least about 80% of superabsorbent polymers (SAP) by weight of its absorbent material. An acquisition-distribution system (ADS) (50) is at least partially disposed between the absorbent core and the topsheet. The ADS extends in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article at least from a point A1 disposed at a distance D from the front edge to a point A2 disposed at a distance D from the back edge of the article, D being equal to 32% of the length L of the article. The ADS has a basis weight which may be at least 20% lower at the point A2 than at the point A1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Manuela Ines Schneider, Gemma Baquer Molas, Nguyen Huynh-Trang Le