Patents Assigned to The Procter & Gamble
  • Antiperspirant spray devices and compositions
    Patent number: 10787283
    Abstract: A method for filling a hand held spray device is disclosed. The spray device has a body with a reservoir. The method includes mixing a non-volatile silicone fluid, an antiperspirant active, at least one liquid activation enhancer and a first portion of an organoclay material to form a first composition, wherein the liquid activation enhancer has a Hansen Solubility Parameter for Hydrogen Bonding, ?h, between about 2 and about 6 and a light transmittance value greater than 90%. The method further includes mixing a liquid fragrance material and a second portion of an organoclay material to form a second composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elton Luis Menon, David Frederick Swaile
  • Apertured topsheets and methods for making the same
    Patent number: 10786401
    Abstract: A diaper includes a liquid permeable topsheet including a patterned apertured nonwoven material. The patterned apertured nonwoven material includes a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured nonwoven material and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured nonwoven material. At least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures. The plurality of apertures are non-homogeneous in a repeat unit such that at least two apertures of the plurality of apertures have a different size or a different shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy Ian Mullane, Kelyn Anne Arora, Jill Marlene Orr, Donald Carroll Roe, Jennifer Schutte, John Brian Strube, Ann Cecilia Tapp, Rachael Eden Walther, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Jennifer Lynn Dusold, Margaret Elizabeth Porter
  • Microfluidic delivery cartridges and methods of connecting cartridges with microfluidic delivery systems
    Patent number: 10780192
    Abstract: A method of connecting a cartridge comprising a fluid composition with a microfluidic delivery system is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a housing comprising electrical contacts, wherein the electrical contacts of the housing are disposed on a first plane; providing a cartridge comprising a reservoir for containing a fluid composition, a die comprising a nozzle, and electrical contacts that are in electrical communication with the die, wherein the electrical contacts of the cartridge are disposed along a second plane that is parallel with the first plane; and connecting the cartridge with the housing by moving the cartridge in a direction parallel with the second plane toward the housing until the electrical contacts of the cartridge are in electrical communication with the electrical contacts of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dana Paul Gruenbacher, Simon Dodd, David S. Hunt, Joseph Edward Scheffelin, Faiz Feisal Sherman
  • Apparatus for sensing environmental humidity changes
    Patent number: 10782261
    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 water soluble electrolyte embedded in the polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Grant Edward Striemer
  • Cleansing composition having a preservative system and a wet wipe comprising the clean compositions
    Patent number: 10779533
    Abstract: A wet wipe includes a cleansing composition and a substrate. The cleansing composition includes a preservative enhancing agent selected from the group consisting of caprylyl glycol; caprylyl glyceryl ether; glyceryl caprylate; sorbitan caprylate; ethylhyexyl glycerin, and combinations thereof. The cleansing composition includes a preservative selected from the group consisting of benzoic acid; lactic acid; sorbic acid; malic acid; maleic acid, and combinations thereof. The cleansing composition has a pH less than about 4. A method of making the cleansing composition may include dissolving one or more preservatives with water to form a solution; adding a rheology modifier to the solution; adding an emulsifier to the solution; adding a preservative enhancing agent to the solution; and adding citric acid to the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Allen Pettigrew, Justin Angelo Caserta, Donna Jane Wiedemann
  • Method of maximizing shipping efficiency of absorbent articles
    Patent number: 10780001
    Abstract: A process for shipping absorbent products having a substantially airfelt free absorbent core, on pallets, is provided. The loaded pallet comprises a plurality of packages, each having a plurality of disposable absorbent articles disposed within the interior space of the package, wherein the plurality of packages are arranged on the pallet such that the plurality of packages on the pallet exhibit a density of from about 11.0 lbs/ft3 to about 14.6 lbs/ft3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Dean Larry Duval, Harald Hermann Hundorf, Holger Beruda, Horst Blessing, Peter Dziezok, Axel Krause, Mattias Schmidt, Lutz Stelzig
  • Oral care compositions for active agent delivery
    Patent number: 10780032
    Abstract: An oral care composition with an aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. A jammed emulsion with aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. An oral care composition with aqueous phase, hydrophobic phase, active agent, and optionally emulsifier. Methods of using disclosed compositions for active agent delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jayanth Rajaiah, Paul Albert Sagel, Geoffrey Marc Wise
  • Apparatus and process for forming water soluble pouches
    Patent number: 10781000
    Abstract: An apparatus including: a plurality of forming molds, each mold including: a leading edge; a trailing edge; a mold face; a plurality of first recesses in the mold face positioned across the mold face, each first recess in fluid communication with a first vacuum duct; a leading face extending from the leading edge in a direction away from the mold face; a trailing face extending from the trailing edge in a direction away from the mold face; wherein at least a portion of the leading face is recessed relative to the mold face proximal the leading edge or at least a portion of the trailing face is recessed relative to the mold face proximal the trailing edge; wherein the plurality of forming molds is arranged leading edge to trailing edge as a first mold belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Stuart Howell, II, Nathan Alan Gill
  • Methods for inhibiting conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA)
    Patent number: 10780072
    Abstract: The invention provides one or more methods of inhibiting the conversion of choline 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 formation of trimethylamine (TMA) from choline in the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 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
  • Liquid fabric enhancers comprising branched polyester molecules
    Patent number: 10781402
    Abstract: Liquid fabric enhancer compositions that include branched polyester compounds. Methods of making and using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Bernard William Kluesener, Julie Ann Menkhaus
  • Methods of reduction preventing or removing biofilms
    Patent number: 10781406
    Abstract: Use of a copolymer to reduce the development of biofilm on a surface and/or to increase removal ease of removal of a biofilm from a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Peter Herbert Koenig, Samuel Kimani Njoroge, Jamesina Anne Fitzgerald
  • Detergent compositions comprising polypeptide variants
    Patent number: 10781408
    Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising polypeptide variants and methods of cleaning and/or treatment of surfaces using such compositions, and fabric treatment compositions comprising polypeptide variants. The compositions may comprise surfactants: anionic, nonionic and/or cationic surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lars Giger, Annette Helle Johansen, Lars Beier, Jürgen Carsten Franz Knötzel, Gernot J. Abel, Klaus Gori, Neil Joseph Lant
  • Dryer sheets comprising branched polyester polymers
    Patent number: 10781413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dryer sheets comprising branched polyester polymers and methods of making and using such dryer sheets. Such dryer sheets, can comprise a variety substrate materials and provide the desired level of performance without the technical and economic drawbacks of conventional dryer sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Bernard William Kluesener, Heather Anne Doria
  • Shaped nonwoven
    Patent number: 10772768
    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, and wherein in at least one of the microzones, the first region exhibits a Contact Angle of greater than 90 degrees, as measured by the Contact Angle Test Method detailed herein, and the second region exhibits a Time to Wick of less than 10 seconds, as measured by the Time to Wick Test Method detailed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman, Adrien Grenier, Martin Ian James, Stefano Michele Sinigaglia
  • Hair care composition comprising non-volatile hydrocarbon oils and fatty esters of benzoic acid
    Patent number: 10772812
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hair care composition comprising: a cationic surfactant system; a high melting point fatty compound; a fatty ester of benzoic acid; a non-volatile hydrocarbon oil; and an aqueous carrier. The compositions of the present invention provide conditioning benefits, especially dry conditioning benefits, while providing improved clean feel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mui Siang Soh, Tian Yong Lim
  • Compositions and methods useful for treatment of respiratory illness
    Patent number: 10772848
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions including phenylephrine, its free and addition salt forms, and mixtures thereof, alone, or in combination with other pharmaceutical actives. The compositions have a pH of about 2 to about 5 and are substantially free of aldehydes. Also disclosed are methods of treating respiratory illness through administration of a composition comprising phenylephrine, its free and addition salt forms, and mixtures thereof alone, or in combination with other pharmaceutical actives, wherein the composition has a pH of from about 2 to about 5 and is substantially free of aldehydes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Jayant Eknath Khanolkar, Douglas William Gledhill, Susan Elaine Criss, Niranjan Ramji, Elaine Rose Costeines
  • Non-uniform tail sealing and methods thereof
    Patent number: 10773915
    Abstract: A method for bonding the tail of a convolutely wound log to the body is provided. The method comprises the use of a bonding material to bond the tail to the wound log. The bonding material is applied to application sites arranged in a non-uniform pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Victoria Grace Strain, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Nonwoven sheet
    Patent number: D895301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emma Lynn Sartini, Huan Yan, Fancheng Wang, Sijia Wang, Xiaoxin Liu, Nikole Fey Friend
  • Over the counter medicinal container with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D896640
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Mary Carol Riffe
  • Absorbent article substrate with a pattern
    Patent number: D897526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Theodore Cory Fites, Sarah Ann Sanborn, Jennifer Lynn DuSold