Patents Assigned to The Proctor & Gamble Company
  • Publication number: 20130280192
    Abstract: A hair care composition having from about 0.05% to about 15% of one or more oligomers derived from unsaturated polyol esters. The hair care composition further includes from about 5% to about 50% of one or more anionic surfactants. The hair care composition also has at least about 20% of an aqueous carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John David CARTER, Elaine Marie BURT
  • Publication number: 20130233049
    Abstract: Method for assessment of friction properties of fibers or substrate. The method is useful for assessing the degree of damage of hair fibers, for demonstrating the efficacy of a composition for minimizing the friction properties of fibers or substrate and/or for supporting advertising claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chetan Kantilal YAGNIK, Kumar NMN VAROON
  • Publication number: 20130236074
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system for performing image analysis include a calibration device comprising a first color correction region comprising a predetermined plurality of color chips; and a memory component that stores logic, that when executed, causes a processor to perform at least the following: access a digital image of a subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a skin of the subject, the digital image comprising a portion of the calibration device; calibrate the digital image using the first color correction region; analyze a condition within the digital image; and output one or more results corresponding to the condition within the digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicants: CANFIELD SCIENTIFIC, INCORPORATED, THE PROCTOR & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Greg George HILLEBRAND, Mani V. THOMAS, William Paul HALAS
  • Patent number: 8522794
    Abstract: A method of imparting hair strand effects may include identifying each of a plurality of hair strands to which to apply a hair strand effect product independently and individually, the plurality of hair strands associated with an illustration of at least one type of hair strand effects and one of a plurality of hair styles, and applying the product to each of the plurality of hair strands independently and individually subsequent to identifying the plurality of hair strands. In the alternative or in combination, a hair instruction guide may be consulted, the guide having at least one strand size associated with one of the plurality of types of hair strand effects, and a strand of hair may be identified according to the at least one strand size. A system for creating a hair strand effect may include a hair strand effect product and such a hair instruction guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dennis Joseph Boyle, Natasha Jane Evans, Betsy Charlotte Fields, Simon Paul Godfrey, Mark Thomas Lund, Emily Joyce Ma, John Edward Sheppard, John Wallace Smith
  • Publication number: 20130134233
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions that improve the scent perception for a user. Improved scent perception is achieved by presenting alternating scents and by varying levels of output of scents, as well as by minimizing device clogging, thereby improving evaporation profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventor: The Proctor & Gamble Company
  • Publication number: 20130124170
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a process for forming a very well defined pattern of particulate material in a composite material comprising a web material and particulate absorbent material. The present invention relates also to a method for determining the equipment design and process parameter for such a process. In a particular application, the present invention provides a process for preparing liquid absorbent structures, such as may be useful for disposable absorbent articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventor: The Proctor & Gamble Company
  • Publication number: 20130058543
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for performing image analysis include accessing a digital image of a subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a target substrate of the subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a calibration device; detecting a position of the calibration device by searching the digital image for a predetermined background color; detecting a plurality of color chips on the calibration device; mapping a position of the plurality of color chips on the digital image, each of the plurality of color chips comprising a predetermined chip color; comparing at least a portion of the plurality of color chips with a predetermined color standard; and altering the digital image, based on the comparison, to provide consistent image parameters with other images of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: THE PROCTOR & GAMBLE COMPANY, CANFIELD SCIENTIFIC, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mani V. THOMAS, William Paul HALAS, Daniel Gregory CHERILL
  • Patent number: 8372795
    Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to processes for making stable compositions via combining a mixture containing at least one cationic polymer and a mixture containing at least one anionic surfactant in the presence of a high energy dispersion step, followed by incorporation of an external structurant using a low energy dispersion step, and compositions made according to the disclosed processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Seth Edward Lindberg, Mark Robert Sivik, Patrick Thomas Spicer, Gregory Thomas Waning
  • Patent number: 8364451
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a process for forming a very well defined pattern of particulate material in a composite material comprising a web material and particulate absorbent material. The present invention relates also to a method for determining the equipment design and process parameter for such a process. In a particular application, the present invention provides a process for preparing liquid absorbent structures, such as may be useful for disposable absorbent articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans-Adolf Jackels
  • Patent number: 8277429
    Abstract: Absorbent product including a package, at least one absorbent article and a miniature model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tanguy Yann Pellen, Jing Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang
  • Patent number: 8241743
    Abstract: Nonwoven webs that are comprised of non-thermoplastic fibers, have good in-use strength, and that disperse or break apart when subjected to agitation in water are disclosed. Pre-moistened wipes comprising such webs are also disclosed. The method of making the nonwoven webs is described as providing the webs with discrete compressed sites that form lines of weakness, such that the web may fail in tension along the lines of weakness when the web is subjected to a force less than the maximum force of the uncompressed regions of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Jonathan Paul Brennan
  • Patent number: 8211408
    Abstract: An oral care composition comprising a fused silica abrasive and a fluoride source. The oral care composition may have a lower pH to aid in fluoride and/or active stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arif Ali Baig, George Endel Deckner, Iain Allan Hughes
  • Patent number: 8177858
    Abstract: Aqueous laundry detergent compositions containing surfactants and fatty acid, having a pH of from about 6 to about 11 and containing a polymer having a number average molecular weight of from about 700,000 to about 4,000,000 and comprising monomeric units including: nonionic monomers selected from acrylamide, N,N-dialkyl acrylamide, methacrylamide, N,N-dialkylmethacrylamide, hydroxyalkyl acrylate and vinyl pyrrolidone, vinyl acetate, vinyl alcohol, and mixtures thereof; cationic monomers selected from N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl methacrylate, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylate, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylamide, N,N-dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylamide, methacylamidoalkyl trialkylammonium chloride, acrylamidoalkylltrialkylammonium chloride, vinylamine, quaternized vinyl imidazole and diallyl dialkyl ammonium chloride, and mixtures thereof; and anionic monomers selected from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic acid, vinyl sulfonic acid, styrene sulfonic acid, acrylamidopropylmethane sulfonic acid (AMPS), salts thereof, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tim Roger Michel Vanpachtenbeke, Francesco De Buzzaccarini, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Johan Depoortere, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Kerry Andrew Vetter
  • Patent number: 8168853
    Abstract: An absorbent article of the present invention may comprise a topsheet, an outer cover, and an absorbent core disposed therebetween. The outer cover may comprise an extrusion bonded laminate. The EBL may comprise a multi-layer coextruded elastomeric film and a nonwoven. The film may comprise a core layer, a first outer layer, and a second outer layer, wherein the core layer is between the first and second outer layers. The nonwoven may comprise fibers and/or filaments. The first outer layer may be non-adhesively joined to the nonwoven via extrusion coating. Further, the outer cover may be elastic to at least about 50% engineering strain. The nonwoven may have high chemical affinity for the first outer layer. The first outer layer may have a low chemical affinity for the core layer; and the multi-layer coextruded elastomeric film may have a basis weight no greater than about 40 gsm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Marie Autran, Iyad Muslet, David G. Bland, Leopoldo V. Cancio, Janet Neton, Todd Leon Mansfield
  • Patent number: 8163130
    Abstract: A paper product having a plurality of tessellating unit cells forming a pattern is disclosed. Each unit cell has a center and at least two continuous land areas extending in at least two directions from the center and a plurality of pillow areas each surrounded by at least one of the continuous land areas. Each of the continuous land areas at least bifurcates to form a continuous land area portion having a first width before bifurcation and at least two continuous land area portions having a second width after bifurcation. The first width is greater than the second width. Each of the continuous land area portions having the first width has a first number density and each of the at least two continuous land area portions having the second width has a second number density. The first number density is less than the second number density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Osman Polat, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 8153144
    Abstract: The multiphase personal care composition of the present invention comprises a first phase and a second phase. The first phase is comprised of structured surfactant phase that comprises at least about 0.5% of alkylamphoacetate. The alkylamphoacetate comprises a Percentage Diacetate of less than about 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jamal Ihsan Berry, Karl Shiqing Wei, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Scott William Syfert
  • Patent number: 8119064
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions that improve the scent perception for a user. Improved scent perception is achieved by presenting alternating scents and by varying levels of output of scents, as well as by minimizing device clogging, thereby improving evaporation profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Mario Alonso, John Philip Hecht, Steven Reece, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eileen Marie St. Pierre, Zaiyou Liu, Christine Marie Readnour, Carl Eric Kaiser, Susan Eleanor Baillely, Sion Agami
  • Publication number: 20120024470
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring, at high speed and in a very effective and accurate and cost effective manner, particulate material from a first moving endless surface with reservoir(s) to a second moving endless surface carrying a substrate material, such as a nonwoven web material, and transferring said combination of substrate material with particulate material to a further apparatus unit; said second moving endless surface is adjacent and in communication with a first and a second vacuum chamber, with different vacuum pressures and/or different size. Also a process is provided, using the described apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Harald Hermann HUNDORF, Marion Hundorf, Peter Ostle, Siegfried Link, Martin Dohmen
  • Patent number: D675106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Diane Danheiser Powers, Aaron Paul Burghard
  • Patent number: D683483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Corey Michael Bischoff, Mark John Steinhardt, Benjamin Janes Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Christopher James Page