Patents Examined by Brian P. Mruk
  • Patent number: 11649310
    Abstract: What are described are copolymers containing cationic structural units and macromonomeric structural units. The copolymers are, for example, advantageously suitable for use in detergent compositions and lead to advantageous shine results, for example, after application on hard surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD
    Inventors: Hannah Benson, Carsten Cohrs, Mike Sahl
  • Patent number: 11643620
    Abstract: Detergent composition (F) for domestic or industrial use including, as thickener, a self-invertible inverse latex including an aqueous phase including: a) a crosslinked anionic polyelectrolyte (P) consisting of: —at least one first monomer unit derived from 2-methyl-2-[(1-oxo-2-propenyl)amino]-1-propanesulfonic acid in free acid form or partially or totally salified form; —at least one second monomer unit derived from at least one monomer chosen from the elements of the group consisting of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2,3-dihydroxypropyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 2,3-dihydroxypropyl methacrylate, or vinylpyrrolidone; and—at least one monomer unit derived from a polyethylenic crosslinking monomer (AR), b) at least one sequestrant compound (SQ) chosen from the elements of the group consisting of ethylenediaminedisuccinic acid in trisodium salt form, the glutamic acid, N,N-diacetic acid, tetrasodium salt, and the sodium salt of iminosuccinic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DE PRODUITS POUR LES INDUSTRIES CHIMIQUES SEPPIC
    Inventors: Miruna Bodoc, Aurelie Colas
  • Patent number: 11643619
    Abstract: A method of making a detergent composition including the following steps in the recited order: providing an aqueous composition comprising a citrate salt; lowering the pH by adding a first, un-neutralized or partially neutralized, polyacrylic acid having a weight average molecular weight in the range of 1000 to 6000 to form a second mixture; increasing the pH by adding alkali metal carbonate and/or alkali metal bicarbonate to form a third mixture; and adding a second polyacrylic acid having a weight average molecular weight in the range of 1000 to 6000 to form a fourth mixture; wherein the detergent composition is preferably an automatic dishwashing detergent composition or a laundry detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser Finish B.V.
    Inventors: Alias Younis Al-Bayati, Gerhard Kämmerer, Caroline Sabina Rigobert, Claudia Schmaelzle, Diego Simionato, Michela Tasinazzo
  • Patent number: 11639486
    Abstract: Disclosed is a detergent composition (F) for domestic or industrial use including, as thickener, a self-invertible inverse latex including an aqueous phase including: a. a crosslinked anionic polyelectrolyte (P) consisting of: —at least one monomer unit derived from 2-methyl-2-[(1-oxo-2-propenyl)amino]-1-propanesulfonic acid in free acid form or partially or totally salified form; —at least one monomer unit derived from at least one monomer chosen from the elements of the group consisting of acrylamide, N,N-dimethylacrylamide, methacrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide, N-tert-butylacrylamide; and —at least one monomer unit derived from a polyethylenic crosslinking monomer (AR), b. glutamic acid, N,N-diacetic acid, tetrasodium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DE PRODUITS POUR LES INDUSTRIES CHIMIQUES SEPPIC
    Inventors: Miruna Bodoc, Aurelie Colas
  • Patent number: 11633334
    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: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    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: 11634663
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laundry care composition having at least one laundry care ingredient and at least one leuco composition conforming to Formula (I): Ar1Ar2Ar3CH??(I) wherein Ar2 and Ar3 are independently a carbocyclic aryl or heteroaryl, and Ar1 is selected from the group consisting of: unsubstituted phenyl, electron deficient carbocyclic aryl, and heteroaryl. The present disclosure also provides a method of determining an authentic laundry care composition and test kits for detecting authentic laundry care compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Daniel Dale Ditullio, Jr., Sanjeev Kumar Dey, Haihu Qin
  • Patent number: 11603508
    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: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Erin Jane Dahlquist Howlett, Renee Elizabeth Mueggenborg, Matthew Paul Molinaro
  • Patent number: 11597892
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for washing a hard article, the method including: the contact step of bringing a detergent liquid obtained by mixing (a) a potassium internal olefin sulfonate and (b) water having a hardness of 5° DH or more, into contact with the hard article, and the step of rinsing the hard article after the contact step with water having a hardness of 5° DH or more, wherein the detergent liquid at 30° C. or more is brought into contact with the hard article in at least a part of the contact step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 11591547
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to biodegradable cleaning compositions, in particular hard surface cleaning compositions, and their use. The compositions according to the invention comprise one or more biosurfactants(s), one or more sorbitan ester(s) and one or more further surfactant(s), which is/are neither a biosurfactant nor a sorbitan ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Zheng Xue, Andras Nagy, Dennis Parrish, Sam Christy, Jennifer Goodyear, Jeff Davidson
  • Patent number: 11591551
    Abstract: A composition is provided for a non-aqueous foaming aerosol cleaner or lubricant. Foam builders, especially silicone glycol copolymers, are used to generate high density foam of the solvent-based formula. A cleaning product variant may be introduced via an air intake route for loosening deposits in an internal combustion engine. The high foam aerosol product dispenses easily without causing engine stalling. A process of lubricating a target substrate is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kirstie Tan, Tze-Lee Phang, Jiafu Fang, Ali Alwattari
  • Patent number: 11584901
    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: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4, INC.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Huang, Helen S. M. Lu, Weiming Qiu, Mukesh C. Shah, Steven W. Shuey, Mark Robert Sivik, Kristi Lynn Fliter
  • Patent number: 11584903
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a formulation for a unit does cleansing product without the use of a film package, which contains a basic cleansing composition and a structurant comprising C6-C30 fatty acid or mixtures thereof and at least one water soluble polymer or water dispersible polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew P. Nelson, Yunpeng Zhu, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Krishnan Tamareselvy, Sinan Li, Kristia A. Rivera, Steven Carbone, Gary A. Russo, John Uhran, David Michael Pehar, Jess Carlson, Trevor L. Jackson
  • Patent number: 11584902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for removing red oils deposits formed in an installation comprising the use of a cleaning agent comprising one or more fatty acid esters to dissolve the red oils deposit and to form a mixture comprising the cleaning agent and the dissolved red oils; and removing the mixture comprising the cleaning agent and the dissolved red oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Carole Bailly, Jean-Pierre Thoret Bauchet, Michel Laxnier
  • Patent number: 11572529
    Abstract: A liquid laundry composition comprising: (i) one or more anionic surfactants; and (ii) a non-ionic ethoxylated C10 Guerbet alcohol surfactant with a degree of ethoxylation in the range of 1 to 10; wherein the total amount of anionic surfactant in the composition is in the range of 3 to 18 wt % of the total composition and the weight ratio of the total amount of anionic surfactant to the non-ionic ethoxylated C10 Guerbet alcohol surfactant is in the range of 6:1 to 60:1. Use of a liquid laundry detergent composition including said non-ionic ethoxylated C10 Guerbet alcohol surfactant for laundering textiles wherein effective foam is maintained during a main wash step and an easy rinse of the textiles is provided during a rinse step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Julie Bennett, Robert John Carswell, Eva-Maria Reis-Walther, David Christopher Thorley, Juergen Gert Tropsch, Holger Michael Tuerk
  • Patent number: 11566209
    Abstract: Disclosed is a unit dose laundry detergent product containing an in-vitro, delayed onset fluid gel detergent composition and a water soluble film pouch for enclosing the detergent composition. The composition includes a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate and/or an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide, and a non-ionic surfactant comprising an alkoxylated alcohol, in an amount from 20 to 70 wt %, water in an amount from about 10 to about 30 wt %, free fatty acids in an amount from about 2 to 12 wt %, a magnesium cation in an amount of from 0.15 to 1 wt %, and colloidal particles such as an encapsulated fragrance. The composition is opacified and structured yet free of a structuring agent or an opacifying agent. Also disclosed is a method of making such product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Frank Meier, Peter Schmiedel
  • Patent number: 11560533
    Abstract: Provided are formulations that offer a high cleaning effect on inorganic particles, organic residues, chemical residues, reaction products on the surface due to interaction of the wafer surface with the Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) slurry and elevated levels of undesirable metals on the surface left on the semiconductor devices after the CMP. The post-CMP cleaning formulations comprise one or more organic acid, one or more polymer and a fluoride compound with pH<7 and optionally a surfactant with two sulfonic acid groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventor: Dnyanesh C. Tamboli
  • Patent number: 11555169
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning product comprising: an inverted container assembly (10) comprising an inverted container (11) and a liquid dispenser (15) attached to a bottom surface (12) of the inverted container (11), and a viscous cleaning composition contained in the inverted container assembly (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Katrien Brouwers, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Evelyne Johanna Lutgarde Vanhecke
  • Patent number: 11530373
    Abstract: What are described are detergent compositions comprising one or more copolymers containing cationic structural units and macromonomeric structural units, and also one or more surfactants and water. The detergent compositions are especially suitable, in an advantageous manner, for producing shine on and imparting hydrophilic properties to the surface which has been treated with the detergent compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD
    Inventors: Hannah Benson, Carsten Cohrs, Natascha Katharina Schelero, Mike Sahl
  • Patent number: 11530374
    Abstract: A laundry care composition comprises a laundry care ingredient or adjunct and at least one compound that is capable of changing from a first color state (i.e., the initial color state in the composition) to a second color state that is perceptibly different from the first color state. A method for treating textile articles comprises the steps of: (a) providing a laundry care composition as described above; (b) adding the laundry care composition to a liquid medium; and (c) placing the textile articles in the liquid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Butterfield, Eduardo Torres, Sanjeev K. Dey, Michael Hong, Haihu Qin, Dominick J. Valenti
  • Patent number: 11523975
    Abstract: A cleansing composition and method of using a cleansing composition, the cleansing composition including a blend of three different emollients, the emollients including a first stearic ester, a second stearic ester, and a branched hydrocarbon, where the first stearic ester and second stearic ester are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
    Inventors: Jasmin Figueroa, Diana Johnson, Marcee Martinez, Abhijit Bidaye, Farahdia Edouard