Patents Examined by Brian P. Mruk
  • Patent number: 12084631
    Abstract: This invention provides a multilayer dissolvable solid article, which comprises two or more flexible, dissolvable, porous sheets. Each of such two or more sheets is characterized by a Percent Open Cell Content of from about 80% to 100% and an Overall Average Pore Size of from about 100 ?m to about 2000 ?m and comprises a water-soluble polymer. At least two adjacent sheets in such dissolvable solid article are characterized by an Adhesion Score (AdS) of no less than 1, while the contacting surfaces of said at least two adjacent sheets are essentially free of adhesives. Preferably, the multilayer dissolvable solid article is essentially free of adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hongsing Tan, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Carl David MacNamara, Ming Tang, Toshiyuki Okada, Hongling Chen, Xu Huang, Gabrielle Alejandro Nogueira Meza, Min Jiang
  • Patent number: 12084629
    Abstract: The disclosure relates a surfactant package for use in hard surface cleaning compositions, preferably floor cleaning compositions which pair an anionic linear alkyl sulfonate surfactant and a nonionic surfactant in a ratio of 1:1 to 9:1. This combination provides for synergistic cleaning of both proteinaceous food soils (red soils) and hydrocarbon-based oily soils (black soils) while also reducing foam produced by the composition. Synergistic nonionic surfactants include EO/PO alcohol alkoxylates or EO/PO fatty alcohol surfactants with a propylene oxide to ethylene oxide to ratio of greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Erin Jane Dahlquist Howlett, Renee Elizabeth Mueggenborg, Matthew Paul Molinaro
  • Patent number: 12077731
    Abstract: A method of improving or stabilizing foaming of a hand dishwashing detergent composition when combined with water is achieved by providing one or more of polyethyleneimine ethoxylate and polyethylene glycol to a hand dishwashing detergent composition comprising an amine oxide. Hand dishwashing detergent compositions to reduce amine oxide content contain water, surfactant base, and foaming booster consisting of amine oxide, and one or more of polyethyleneimine ethoxylate and polyethylene glycol. A foaming booster consisting of polyethyleneimine ethoxylate and polyethylene glycol can eliminate use of amine oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Michelle A. Piombino, Daniel Thomas Piorkowski
  • Patent number: 12077729
    Abstract: A unit dose detergent pack is disclosed. The unit dose detergent pack includes a pouch formed from a water-soluble film and an opacified liquid detergent composition releasably disposed within the pouch. The opacified liquid detergent composition includes a plurality of neutralizing agents including more than 50 mole percent of sodium hydroxide and a remainder alkanolamine based on a total of 100 mole percent of the sodium hydroxide and the alkanolamine together. The composition further includes a fatty acid and water. A weight ratio of the sodium hydroxide and the fatty acid is from about 0.3:1 to about 0.8 to 1. The opacified liquid detergent composition is free of a microplastic opacifier and has a turbidity of at least 250 NTUs measured utilizing a turbidity meter at about 24° C. Also disclosed is an opacified liquid detergent composition and a method of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski
  • Patent number: 12054693
    Abstract: The invention meets the needs above by providing a surfactant system, mixture or blend that can be used as a part of a soaking composition. The surfactant system is capable of forming emulsions with, and thus removing, oily and greasy stains. In a preferred embodiment the surfactant compositions of the invention can remove non-trans fat and fatty acid stains. The invention involves foaming soaking compositions that have some or part of the anionic surfactant present in the same replaced with an extended chain anionic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Victor Fuk-Pong Man, Yvonne Marie Killeen, Derrick Richard Anderson
  • Patent number: 12054695
    Abstract: A cleaning solution for produce includes Himalayan pink crystal salt, turmeric powder, and water. In an embodiment, the turmeric powder is Alleppey finger turmeric powder. The cleaning solution can include equal concentrations of Himalayan crystal salt and Alleppey finger turmeric powder. The cleaning solution for produce can be particularly effective for detoxifying fruits and vegetables of pesticide residues and bacterial contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIIVERSITY
    Inventor: Sivakumar Joghi Thatha Gowder
  • Patent number: 12049603
    Abstract: The need for a hand-dishwashing composition which is highly effective at removing grease, while also having good suds mileage, and avoiding negatives on physical stability, especially at low temperatures is met by formulating the hand dishwashing composition to comprise a surfactant system, the surfactant system comprising an alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant comprising little or no branching and having a low degree of alkoxylation, or no alkoxylation, and a co-surfactant, in combination with polypropylene glycol of a defined molecular weight, as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise Billiauw, Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Katrien Richarde Francoise Decraene, Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn, Bjorn Vanoverstraete
  • Patent number: 12049608
    Abstract: A laundry care composition including: (a) at least one laundry care ingredient and (b) a leuco composition. The laundry care composition has a ?HA of at least 10. Methods of treating textiles with such laundry care compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Daniel Dale Ditullio, Dominick Joseph Valenti, Sanjeev Kumar Dey, Haihu Qin
  • Patent number: 12049602
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for removal of limescale from a surface, which provides a sheet infused with a descaling agent and a binding agent comprising a polyacrylate salt, wherein the polyacrylate salt causes the sheet to bind to a surface to effectuate removal of the limescale. In embodiments, the sheet may bind to a vertical surface for treatment of limescale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Johnny Jesse Madrid
  • Patent number: 12046464
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning composition, a method of cleaning a substrate using the same, and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the same, the substrate cleaning composition including a styrene copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1-1a and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 1-1b; an additive represented by Formula 2-1; and an alcoholic solvent having a solubility of 500 g/L or less in deionized water,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., DONGJIN SEMICHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ga Young Song, Mi Hyun Park, Jong Kyoung Park, Jung Youl Lee, Hyun Jin Kim, Hyo San Lee, Han Sol Lim, Hoon Han
  • Patent number: 12031108
    Abstract: Acidic liquid fabric care compositions that include citric acid and/or a salt thereof, fragrance material that includes certain aldehydic perfume raw materials, and water. Related methods of using and making such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rachel Morgan Roeder, Jennifer Lea Rinker, Marc Johan Declercq
  • Patent number: 12024691
    Abstract: Described herein is a fabric care composition including at least one hydrophobically modified polyalkyleneimine as dye fixative polymer. Also described herein is a method for providing an improved color care effect during washing or treatment of colored fabric, the method including use of the hydrophobically modified polyalkyleneimine as dye fixative polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yan Kang, Ya Jing Liu, Yungi Lee, Helmut Witteler, Alexandros Lamprou
  • Patent number: 12024689
    Abstract: A solid cleansing product including at least a first surfactant and a second surfactant present in a combined surfactant weight amount; at least a first buffering agent and a second buffering agent a present in a combined buffering agent weight amount; and magnesium sulfate; where the combined buffering agent weight amount is greater than the combined surfactant weight amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
    Inventors: Donald L. Harper, Hima Sadavrati, Shailendra Singh, Thomas Joseph, Marcee Martinez, Anthony Geonnotti, III, Aliaksandr Zhuk
  • Patent number: 12006490
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent formulation is provided, comprising: a liquid carrier; a cleaning surfactant; and a cleaning booster polymer, wherein the cleaning booster polymer has structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (III) and optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (IV)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Marianne Creamer
  • Patent number: 12006489
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions comprising a polysaccharide derivative, wherein the polysaccharide derivative comprises a polysaccharide substituted with a) at least one hydrophobic group, and b) at least one hydrophilic group, wherein the polysaccharide is poly alpha-1,3-glucan, poly alpha-1,6-glucan, or poly alpha-1,3-1,6-glucan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Huang, Helen Lu, Weiming Qiu, Mukesh C. Shah, Steven W. Shuey, Mark Robert Sivik, Kristi Lynn Fliter
  • Patent number: 11998626
    Abstract: A non-antimicrobial cleansing composition is disclosed comprising from about 10.0 wt. % to less than about 40 wt. % of one or more C1-C8 alcohols; about 0.5 wt. % to about 10.0 wt. % of at least one primary surfactant; 0 wt. % to about 10.0 wt. % of at least one secondary surfactant, with the primary and secondary surfactants having an HLB value greater than 8; a pH adjusting agent; and water. The composition does not achieve a microbial kill level greater than 2.0 log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Amanda Jo Copeland, Venkatesan Padyachi, James Bingham, Nick Ciavarella, Kayla Elise Ivey, Carey Jaros, Daniel Willis, Jessica Rae Tittl, Srini Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 11999925
    Abstract: A plastic cleaning method for cleaning a plastic article in an automatic dishwashing machine is provided, comprising: selecting an automatic dishwashing composition for cleaning plastic, wherein the automatic dishwashing composition, comprises: a builder; a phosphonate a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer comprising: (a) 60 to 98 wt % of structural units of formula I wherein each R1 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and (b) 2 to 40 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein each R2 is independently selected from an alkyl group with at least 4 carbon atoms and wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Scott Backer, Paul Mercando
  • Patent number: 11993761
    Abstract: The invention is a system and method for transforming food waste into a commercial cleaning product. The system is containable in an enclosed facility and installable in urban environments. Food waste is sorted and ground into uniformly sized particles, heated to an acceleration temperature, inoculated with an inoculant including lactic acid bacteria, which is mixed into the ground waste. The waste then undergoes sedentary fermentation for times as short as 24 hours or less. The fermented waste is separated into liquids and solids, and liquids are further separated into at least one distillation stream. Solids are dried to obtain a second distillation stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: RECYCLE TRACK SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Amanda Weeks, Brett Van Aalsburg, Stephen Turek, Emilie Benoit, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11987772
    Abstract: One of the problems is to provide a solvent composition which has a little adverse effect on the global environment and has excellent stability when a compound having a perfluoropolyether (PFPE) group is in a solution state. In an embodiment, the problem is solved by providing a solvent composition for dissolving a compound having a perfluoropolyether (PFPE) group includes Z-1,2-dichloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (1223xd(Z)) as a main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kanako Osafune, Fuyuhiko Sakyu, Michitaka Ootani
  • Patent number: 11981881
    Abstract: An absorbent substrate such as a wool dryer ball is imbued with a fragrance or treatment composition. The fragrance or treatment composition comprises an aqueous carrier, free fragrance, and encapsulated fragrance. The composition includes about 0.1 wt. % to about 5 wt. % free fragrance and about 0.1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % encapsulated fragrance. A kit includes absorbent balls, the fragrance or treatment composition, and an applicator for applying the fragrance or treatment composition onto or within the absorbent balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Anna Larracuente, Maxime Pelletier