Patents Examined by Eisa Elhilo
  • Synthesis and application reactive antimicrobial copolymers for textile fibers
    Patent number: 8876914
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide polymer compositions, methods of making polymer compositions, structures (e.g., textile articles) having the polymer composition covalently bonded to the structure, methods of attaching the polymer to the surface of the structure, methods of decreasing the amount of microorganisms formed on a structure, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason J. Locklin
  • Coloring composition and ink for inkjet recording
    Patent number: 8876915
    Abstract: There is provided a coloring composition and an ink for inkjet recording which have an excellent ozone fastness and a high print density and is excellent in storage stability over time, and one example of the coloring composition is a coloring composition contains a compound (1A) and a compound (2B):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Fujie, Prakash Patel, Clive Edwin Foster, Keiichi Tateishi
  • Zwitterionic azo dyestuffs for coloring keratin-including fibres
    Patent number: 8864848
    Abstract: The invention relates to agents for coloring keratinic fibers, in particular human hair, including in a cosmetic carrier at least one compound of the formula (I). The structures the of the general formula (I) have a heterocycle A which bears a quaternary nitrogen atom and thus a positive charge. The invention furthermore relates to the use of these novel azo dyes in agents for coloring hair and to the dyes themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Wibke Gross, Ralph Nemitz, Melanie Moch
  • Compositions of fluorescent whitening agents
    Patent number: 8864851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to whitening compositions, processes for obtaining such compositions, stable aqueous solutions of such compositions and the use of such compositions for whitening of textile fibers, paper and in detergency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: 3V Sigma S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ferruccio Berte', Marco Brena, Massimo Fabbi, Francesco Maestri
  • Anionic azo dyestuffs for coloring keratin-containing fibers
    Patent number: 8864849
    Abstract: The present specification provides for an agent for coloring keratinic fibers. The agent includes, a cosmetic carrier, a compound of formula (I), R1 and R2 independently of one another denote hydrogen, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a hydroxyl group, a halogen, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, an amino group, a nitro group, an acetyl amino group, or a sulfonamide group; or when in ortho-position to one another, form a 5- or 6-membered, saturated or unsaturated ring, which optionally include further heteroatoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Wibke Gross, Ralph Nemitz, Melanie Moch, Astrid Kroos, Antje Gebert
  • Color intensification by polyquaternium
    Patent number: 8858653
    Abstract: An agent for coloring keratinic fibers included in a cosmetic carrier includes at least one cationic acrylic acid ester copolymer including at least one structural unit of the general formula (I), at least one structural unit of the general formula (II), and at least one structural unit of the general formula (III), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R6 mutually independently denote a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C6 alkyl group, R5, R5?, R5? mutually independently denote a C1 to C20 alkyl group, a C2 to C6 alkenyl group, or a C2 to C6 hydroxyalkyl group, R7 denotes a C1 to C6 alkyl group, a C2 to C6 hydroxyalkyl group, or a C2 to C6 polyhydroxyalkyl group, n denotes an integer from 1 to 50,000, m denotes an integer from 2 to 6, X? denotes a physiologically acceptable anion. The agent further includes at least one color-changing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Norbert Schettiger, Frank Janssen
  • Conditioning dyeing agent for keratinous fibers
    Patent number: 8858652
    Abstract: The specification describes an agent for coloring keratinic fibers. The agent includes, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, at least one oxidation dye precursor, a precursor of a nature-analogous dye, a substantive dye, or combinations thereof. The agent also includes a carrier base combination. The carrier base combination includes at least one fatty substance of formula (I), in which R and R? in each case mutually independently denote a saturated or unsaturated C6-C22 alkyl chain; at least one nonionic surfactant of formula (II),R1-O-[G]p(II) in which R1 denotes a saturated or unsaturated C6-C22 alkyl chain, G denotes a sugar residue with 5 or 6 carbon atoms and p denotes a number from 1 to 10; and at least one cationic polymer, at least one amphoteric polymer, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christiane Witte, Stephan Schwartz
  • Compound having triazine side chain, coloring composition, inkjet ink, inkjet recording method, color filter, and color toner
    Patent number: 8852293
    Abstract: There is provided a compound represented by Formula (1), and a coloring composition including the compound: wherein, in Formula (1), R0 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R0 and R1, R0 and L, or R1 and L may be combined with each other to form a ring, L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, D represents a residue in which n hydrogen atoms are removed from a compound represented by Formula (2), n represents an integer of 1 or more, provided that when n represents an integer of 2 or more, a plurality of R0's to R3's and L's may be the same or different, the compound represented by Formula (1) has at least one ionic hydrophilic group, and in Formula (2), R4 to R24 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Fujie
  • Cosmetic
    Patent number: 8852563
    Abstract: A cosmetic, includes: a composite powder containing titanium oxide and 4-tert-butyl-4-methoxybenzoylmethane and having an average particle diameter of less than 1 ?m; and sorbitan fatty acid ester represented by the following Formula (I): wherein, in Formula (I), R1 to R4 each independently represent —(CH2)nCOOH, —(CH2)nOH, —R5, or —OR6; R5 represents an aliphatic group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms; R6 represents an acyl group having from 10 to 22 carbon atoms; n represents 0 or an integer from 1 to 29; and at least one of R1 to R4 represents —OR6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Minako Kasagi
  • Means to color and/or lighten keratin fibers without ammonia odor
    Patent number: 8845758
    Abstract: The subject of the disclosure, in an exemplary embodiment, is an agent for coloring and/or lightening keratinic fibers, in particular human hair, containing in a cosmetic carrier: (a) ammonia, (b) one or more alkanolamines from the group of monoethanolamine, 2-amino-2-methylpropanol and triethanolamine, (c) one or more alkalizing agents from the group of potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, sodium silicates, and potassium silicates, (d) one or more ethoxylated fatty alcohols having a degree of ethoxylation from about 80 to about 120, (e) one or more fatty alcohols from the group of arachyl alcohol (eicosan-1-ol), gadoleyl alcohol (9Z)-eicos-9-en-1-ol), arachidonyl alcohol ((5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z)-eicosa-5,8,11,14-tetraen-1-ol), behenyl alcohol (docosan-1-ol), erucyl alcohol ((13Z)-docos-13-en-1-ol) and brassidyl alcohol ((13E)-docosen-1-ol).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Constanze Neuba, Frank Jannsen
  • Reduction of ammonia smell in substances for oxidative dyeing and/or lightening keratin fibres
    Patent number: 8845759
    Abstract: A preparation for oxidative dyeing and/or lightening keratin fibers, particularly human hair, contains in a cosmetic carrier (a) a first alkyl glucoside having formula (I) in which R1 stands for an unbranched or branched, saturated or unsaturated C20-C28 alkyl group and n stands for a whole number from 1 to 10, (b) a second alkyl glucoside having formula (II) in which R2 stands for an unbranched or branched, saturated or unsaturated C8-C18 alkyl group and m stands for a whole number from 1 to 10, (c) ammonia and (d) an oxidizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Constanze Neuba, Frank Janssen
  • Compound having multimer structure of xanthene derivative, coloring composition, ink for inkjet recording, method of inkjet recording, color filter, and color toner
    Patent number: 8845760
    Abstract: There is provided a compound represented by formula (1): in formula (1), L represents a divalent to tetravalent linking group; D represents a residue obtained by removing 1 to 5 hydrogen atoms from a compound represented by formula (2); m represents an integer of 1 to 10, however, each L may be the same with or different from every other L; n represents an integer of 2 to 10, however, each D may be the same with or different from every other D; and in formula (2), each of R4 to R24 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that formula (2) has at least one or more ionic hydrophilic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Fujie, Keiichi Tateishi, Clive Edwin Foster
  • Oxidizing composition for hair
    Patent number: 8845756
    Abstract: Present invention relates to an oxidizing composition for keratin fibers especially for human hair with improved lightening effect and therefore, improved colouring and bleaching effects are easily achieved of the compositions applied after mixing with the said composition. Present inventors have surprisingly found out that a composition comprising at least one oxidizing agent and additionally at least one alkalizing agent, at least one carbonate source and at least one urea derivative delivers an improved and homogeneous lightening performance and leaves hair in an improved cosmetically acceptable conditioned status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: KAO Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Ovidiu Feieriova
  • Fluorescent whitening agent compositions
    Patent number: 8845761
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions containing: a) 25-60% by weight of compound of formula (1) wherein X is hydrogen, an alkali or alkaline-earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium and alkanolalkylammonium, alkanolammonium; b) at least 25% by weight of urea; c) up to 50% by weight of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: 3V Sigma S.P.A.
    Inventors: Carlo Seccomandi, Ivan Balestra, Paolo Alioli
  • Oxidizing composition for hair
    Patent number: 8840682
    Abstract: Present invention relates to an oxidizing composition for keratin fibers especially for human hair with improved lightening effect and therefore, improved coloring and bleaching effects are easily achieved of the compositions applied after mixing with the said composition. Present inventors have surprisingly found out that a composition comprising at least one oxidizing agent and additionally at least one alkalizing agent, at least one carbonate source and at least one urea derivative delivers an improved and homogeneous lightening performance and leaves hair in an improved cosmetically acceptable conditioned status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kao Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Ovidiu Feieriova
  • Process for dyeing keratin fibres using a direct dye bearing a disulfide/thiol/protected thiol function and water vapour
    Patent number: 8840684
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for dyeing and/or lightening keratin fibers such as the hair, using i) at least one cationic direct dye bearing a disulfide, thiol or protected thiol function especially of formula (I) as defined in the description and ii) water vapor. The invention also relates to the use i) of at least one cationic direct dye bearing a disulfide, thiol or protected thiol function combined with ii) water vapor, for dyeing and lightening keratin fibers, and to the use of water vapor for grafting onto keratin fibers dyes bearing a disulfide, thiol or protected thiol function. The process used and the use of thiol, protected thiol or disulfide dyes combined with water vapor makes it possible especially to obtain a long-lasting coloration on keratin fibers without the use of a reducing agent and without odor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: l'oreal
    Inventor: Andrew Greaves
  • Dye composition for hair dyeing and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 8834579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo dye composition for hair dyeing that has an excellent performance as a dye for hair dyeing and proves negative in the Ames test, and also relates to a method for producing the composition. An object of the present invention is to develop a purification method for a dye composition for hair dyeing mainly containing an azo dye and proving negative in the Ames test, and to provide the dye composition for hair dyeing that is produced by applying the purification method and indicates negative in the Ames test. The dye composition for hair dyeing contains, as a main component, the azo dye having trimethylammonio, and the dye composition for hair dyeing is characterized in that the result of the Ames test is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Isobe, Kenichiro Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Akiba
  • Ammonium hydroxide-free hair dye compositions containing a buffer system
    Patent number: 8834580
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oxidative hair colorants containing a buffer system consisting of saccharine and at least one alkanolamine. The colorants are free of ammonium hydroxide and sources of ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Alfa Parf Group S.p.A.
    Inventors: Otto Goettel, Johann Aeby, Alberto Finazzi
  • Disazo dyes, preparation and use
    Patent number: 8834581
    Abstract: Described are dyes of formula (I) where R1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, trifluoromethyl or halogen, M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation or an optionally substituted ammonium cation, R2 and R3 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy, R4 is alkyl or alkoxy, R5 and R6 are each independently moieties of the formula —(CmH2m)—O—CnH2n+1, m is an integer from 3 to 6, and n is an integer from 0 to 8. These dyes are useful for dyeing and printing materials having polar groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH
    Inventors: Aloysius Engel, Michael Joerss, Clemens Grund, Bernd Hostasch, Gunter Görlitz
  • Antibacterial hair removal composition
    Patent number: 8828371
    Abstract: An antibacterial, non-aqueous liquid hair removing composition. The composition includes a solubilizing oil effective for solubilizing the ingredients, e.g., mineral oil, and an effective antibacterial amount of an antibacterial agent, e.g., triclosan and/or benzethonium chloride. The composition further includes botanical oils and rosins, e.g., soybean oil, gum rosin, rosin esters and titanium dioxide. The composition may also include fragrances and additional bacteriocides, e.g., phenoxyethanol. The hair removal composition is applied to a person's skin, and after a sufficient amount time, removed from the person's skin with the hair entrapped therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Inventor: Normajean Fusco