Patents Examined by Gregory R. Delcotto
  • Patent number: 12258541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crumbly phase composition containing on total weight of the composition (i) 70-87 wt % of organic compounds and salts thereof containing 85 to 100 wt % on total organic compounds and salts thereof of MGDA-Na3, wherein at least 60 wt % of the MGDA-Na3 is crystalline, and (ii) 13-30 wt % of water The invention furthermore relates to a process to prepare the above composition and a process to prepare crystals of MGDA-Na3 by drying the above composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Elwin Schomaker, Paulus Johannes Cornelis Van Haeren, Martin Heus, Marco Ypma, Stijn Richard Gerard Oudenhoven, Roy Gérard Doppen
  • Patent number: 12258543
    Abstract: A cleaning composition including from about 5% to about 25% by weight of the composition of a hydrogen peroxide source; from 1% to about 10% by weight of the composition of a bleach activator; from about 1×102 to about 1×1011 CFU/g of bacterial spores; and wherein the composition has a pH of from 9.5 to 11.5 as measured in 1% weight/volume aqueous solution in distilled water at 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Katherine Esther Latimer
  • Patent number: 12252673
    Abstract: A unit dose glass cleaner concentrate product includes from 5 grams to 50 grams of a concentrated glass cleaning composition encased in a water soluble film. The concentrated glass cleaning composition includes at least one cleaning solvent and at least one surfactant. The total weight percentage of the cleaning solvents and surfactants, expressed on an anhydrous basis, is at least 50% of the weight of the unit dose window cleaner concentrate product. The unit dose glass cleaner concentrate product can be added to a container and diluted to produce a glass cleaning solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KOREX CANADA COMPANY
    Inventors: Douglas Robert Watson, Sanford Pensler
  • Patent number: 12252668
    Abstract: A cleaning agent which contains, separately from one another in a packaging form, at least one enzyme-containing preparation and at least one builder-containing preparation, as well as a clear rinser preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Thomas Doering, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Carola Ulbrich
  • Patent number: 12252670
    Abstract: A method of 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 <90 wt % of structural units of formula I wherein each R1 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and (b) >10 to 40 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein each R2 is independently selected from a —C2-3 alkyl group and wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Scott Backer, Paul Mercando
  • Patent number: 12247185
    Abstract: Liquid multipurpose alkaline compositions for use as pre-sprays to beneficially remove polymerized soils, de-stain, remove hard water deposits and/or otherwise assist in general cleaning of difficult soils are provided. The multipurpose alkaline compositions include at least one non-hydroxide alkaline source, at least one surfactant, a chelant and a solvent system. The multipurpose alkaline compositions can be PPE free compositions. Methods of using the multipurpose alkaline compositions as pre-treatments, soaks and/or application in machine and manual warewash are also provided. Methods for using the multipurpose alkaline compositions for removing tea stains, coffee stains, hard water scale/deposits, polymerized oils, carbonized soils, fats, oils, and cosmetics are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Erik C. Olson, Hilina Emiru, Derrick Anderson, Kelly Anne Rightmire, Timothy Meier
  • Patent number: 12241046
    Abstract: Stabilized peroxide-containing compositions stabilized with urea and urea/chelator stabilizer blends are provided. The compositions are particularly suitable for, but not limited to, cleaning applications on surfaces within food and beverage industries which may require the use of materials that are acceptable for incidental food/food products/feed contact. Further, the stabilized compositions are particularly suitable for applications requiring materials that are generally regarded as safe (GRAS) or for applications where non-GRAS materials must be minimized. Methods of stabilizing peroxide-containing compositions and methods of using the compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Chris Nagel, Junzhong Li
  • Patent number: 12234431
    Abstract: Described herein is a water-soluble unit dose with a particle having a ratio of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate to Alkylethoxylated Sulfate of greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Michael Joseph Dipaola, Rui Shen, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
  • Patent number: 12234429
    Abstract: Linen treatment compositions and linen processes are disclosed which help to prevent iron deposition from wash water, and/or redeposition after iron containing stain (such as blood) removal by alkaline detergents. The linen treatment composition is a combination of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and an acid source, which may be organic or inorganic. The invention provides for effective iron control in a phosphorus-free formula that is also free of toxic or hazardous chemicals and includes sustainable, environmentally friendly ingredients, while still providing effective iron control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Sukhwan Soontravanich, Stephan Hubig, Altony J. Miralles
  • Patent number: 12227721
    Abstract: A composition includes a compound having structural formula (I): Rf—S—Rh (I) wherein (i) Rf is a partially fluorinated or perfluorinated group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally comprises one or more catenated heteroatoms, and (ii) Rh is a non-fluorinated hydrocarbon group having 1-3 carbon atoms and optionally comprises one or more catenated heteroatoms. The composition further includes an organic lubricant contaminant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael G. Costello, Zai-Ming Qiu, David J. Lundberg, Alexandre R. Monteil
  • Patent number: 12221595
    Abstract: Provided is a decomposing/cleaning composition for an adhesive polymer having a high etching rate and suppressed infiltration into a contact interface between a substrate such as a device wafer and an adhesive layer such as a fixing tape. The decomposing/cleaning composition of one embodiment is a decomposing/cleaning composition for an adhesive polymer containing a quaternary alkylammonium fluoride or a quaternary alkylammonium fluoride hydrate and an aprotic solvent, wherein the aprotic solvent contains (A) an N-substituted amide compound having no active hydrogens on the nitrogen atoms and (B) at least one organic sulfur oxide selected from the group consisting of sulfoxide compounds and sulfone compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Nakazaki, Kuniaki Miyahara, Tomoyuki Fukuyo
  • Patent number: 12221594
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition for removing soils from a surface to be cleaned, formed from water, a detergent mixture and a rinse aid, wherein the detergent mixture comprises a peroxidation catalyst and wherein the rinse aid comprises an oxygen source. Such a composition may provide a more effective cleaning behaviour. The present invention further relates to a method for removing soil from a surface to be cleaned comprising applying to the surface to be cleaned a composition according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Tobias Neil Foster, Dirk Kullwitz, Beana Pathicheril
  • Patent number: 12215299
    Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment compositions containing polymer systems that provide stability and benefit agent deposition as well as methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions may be used for example as through the wash and/or through the rinse fabric enhancers as well as unit dose treatment compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Stephanie Ann Urbin, Alessandro Corona, III, Jocelyn Michelle McCullough, Robert Richard Dykstra, Denise Malcuit Belanger, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Nicholas David Vetter, Tessa Xuan, Renae Dianna Fossum, Reinhold Joseph Leyrer, Gledison Fonseca, Volodymyr Boyko, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Patent number: 12209229
    Abstract: A composition, kit and method useful in a multi-stage washing method for cleaning an aluminum or aluminum alloy containers while reducing hazardous exposure of workers to toxic levels of hydrogen fluoride or ammonium bifluoride employs a stable, neutralized ammonium bifluoride-containing accelerator solution for addition to an acidic wash solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HOUGHTON TECHNICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Laine Stewart, Michael E. Smith, Kimberly A. Kontra, Richard Hills
  • Patent number: 12203052
    Abstract: The need for liquid hand dishwashing cleaning compositions that comprise alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant having little or no ethoxylation, which provides improved low temperature stability while also achieving the desired product viscosity, suds mileage and overall cleaning is met by formulating the liquid hand dishwashing detergent composition to comprise branched alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant having a high level of non-C2-branching, especially with a specific alkyl branching distribution, and an average degree of alkoxylation of less than 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise Billiauw, Kristof Crets, Bjorn Vanoverstraete
  • Patent number: 12203050
    Abstract: Cleaning systems employing detergent compositions in combination with builders comprising alkalinity and chelants are provided. The detergent compositions include amine oxide surfactant and alcohol ethoxylate surfactant blends having a mixture of chain lengths and branching provided. The detergent compositions are particularly efficacious for flexible cleaning systems for cosmetic and other soils as they provide the benefit of separate dosing of surfactants in the detergent from alkalinity sources in a builder composition. Methods of using the detergent compositions and/or the cleaning systems are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Stephan M. Hubig, Susan Maloney Viall
  • Patent number: 12195702
    Abstract: Treatment compositions that include relatively low levels of an oligoamine. Related methods of use and preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sherri Lynn Randall, Fabrizio Meli, Gregory Scot Miracle, Patrick Christopher Stenger, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Giulia Ottavia Bianchetti
  • Patent number: 12187989
    Abstract: A cleaning solution for temporary adhesive for substrates contains: tetrabutylammonium fluoride; dimethyl sulfoxide; and a liquid compound having a solubility parameter of 8.0 or more and 10.0 or less and having a heteroatom. The tetrabutylammonium fluoride is preferably contained at a content of 1 mass % or more and 15 mass % or less in 100 mass % of a total of the tetrabutylammonium fluoride, the dimethyl sulfoxide, and the liquid compound. The dimethyl sulfoxide is preferably contained at a content of 5 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less in 100 mass % of a total of the tetrabutylammonium fluoride, the dimethyl sulfoxide, and the liquid compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro Sugo, Masahito Tanabe, Shohei Tagami
  • Patent number: 12187984
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treatment liquid that exhibits excellent washing properties and improves the smoothness of an object to be treated in a case where the treatment liquid is used for treating an object to be treated containing a cobalt-containing substance. The present invention also provides a method for treating an object to be treated. The treatment liquid according to an embodiment of the present invention contains water, hydroxylamine, and three kinds of first anions consisting of Cl?, NO2?, and NO3?, in which a total content of the first anions is 0.0001 to 30 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the hydroxylamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Sugishima
  • Patent number: 12180438
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a builder; a phosphonate; a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer, comprising: (a) 50 to 95 wt %, based on weight of the dispersant polymer, of structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer; and (b) 5 to 50 wt %, based on weight of the dispersant polymer, of structural units of a sulfate bearing ethylenically unsaturated monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Backer, Marianne Creamer, Paul Mercando, Eric Wasserman, Ashutosh Umarvadia, Muhunthan Sathiosatham, James Pawlow