Patents Examined by Gregory R. Delcotto
  • Patent number: 11685878
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a detergent composition for removing hydrophobic residues and pigments on manufacturing or packaging devices or any other hardware used for manufacturing or packaging cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions, said detergent composition including: a non-ionic surfactant selected from among the alkoxylated fatty alcohols; a non-aromatic co-surfactant selected from among the amine oxides, alkyl sulfates and alkyl sulfonates; and an organic alkaline agent selected from among the amino alcohols, excluding monoethanolamine, the non-aromatic co-surfactant being contained in the detergent composition in an amount of from 1 to 15 wt % in relation to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Gaétan Rauwel, Jacques Criquelion, Sebastién Terrier, Bertrand Letartre
  • Patent number: 11680227
    Abstract: A method of washing glassware is provided including: providing automatic dishwashing apparatus; providing soiled glassware; placing soiled glassware in automatic dishwashing apparatus; providing wash water; providing rinse water; selecting anhydrous mixed powder or mixed granule comprising: 2.5-5 wt % of oxidized maltodextrin, wherein oxidized maltodextrin has Degree of Oxidation of 0.4-1.7; 10-25 wt % of amino acid based builder; 20-75 wt % of additional builder, wherein additional builder includes at least one of sodium citrate, sodium carbonate and sodium percarbonate; 2.5-7.5 wt % of bleach activator; 0.5-10 wt % of nonionic surfactant; 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Lin Wang, Robin P. Ziebarth, Matthew E. Belowich, Scott Backer, Paul Mercando, Yiyong He
  • Patent number: 11680228
    Abstract: Amides of an aliphatic polyamine with two or three molecules of 12-hydroxyoctadecanoic acid, wherein the polyamine comprises at least one primary amino group for each molecule of 12-hydroxyoctadecanoic acid and additionally at least one secondary and/or tertiary amino group, can be used in a lipase stable thickener composition comprising from 50 to 95% by weight of one or more of the amides, from 5 to 50% by weight of one or more diluents and from 0 to 10% by weight water, and such thickener compositions can be prepared by a step of heating a starting mixture comprising hydrogenated castor oil and one or more aliphatic polyamines and adding one or more diluents before or after the heating step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Köhle, Michael Klostermann, Gonglu Tian
  • Patent number: 11680230
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a builder; a phosphonate; a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer comprising: 60 to 98 wt % of structural units of formula I wherein each R1 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and 2 to 40 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein each R2 is independently selected from a —C1-4 alkyl group and wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Scott Backer, Paul Mercando, Ashutosh Umarvadia, Eric Wasserman, Severine Ferrieux
  • Patent number: 11655434
    Abstract: The present invention relates a composition capable of enhancing cleaning properties of a soil during cleaning by treating an object. The composition is a composition containing a modified hydroxyalkyl cellulose and at least one selected from an anionic surfactant and a nonionic surfactant, the modified hydroxyalkyl cellulose being one in which a cationic group and a hydrophobic group represented by the formula (1) are bound to a group resulting from eliminating a hydrogen atom from a hydroxy group of a hydroxyalkyl cellulose. *—Z—R1??(1) wherein, Z represents a single bond or a hydrocarbon group having an oxygen atom; R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 or more carbon atoms; and * represents a binding position to a group resulting from eliminating a hydrogen atom from a hydroxy group of a hydroxyalkyl cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Saito, Yoichiro Imori, Akihiro Koyama, Yukiko Yamawaki
  • Patent number: 11643618
    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: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    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: 11634668
    Abstract: Fabric treatment compositions that include benefit agent capsules and biphenyl brightener. Methods of using the same. Wash water that includes such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Conny Erna Alice Joos, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel
  • Patent number: 11633339
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cleansing compositions that are free of sulfate-based surfactants and free of sodium chloride. The cleansing compositions include: (a) one or more non-sulfate anionic surfactants; one or more amphoteric surfactants; one or more nonionic surfactants; (d) one or more hydrophobically modified poly(meth)acrylates; one or more silicones; and water. The cleansing compositions are particularly useful for cleansing hair and providing conditioning benefits to the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Anna Leticia M. Botto, Liliana Xavier
  • Patent number: 11634671
    Abstract: A structured liquid detergent composition includes water, an anionic detergent surfactant, and a nonionic detergent surfactant. A ratio of the anionic detergent surfactant to the nonionic detergent surfactant is from about 0.5 to about 20. The structured liquid detergent composition further includes a zwitterionic or amphoteric surfactant and a bacterial-derived cellulose network. The structured liquid detergent composition exhibits improved rheological properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Janet Coope-Epstein, Sofia S. Christakos
  • Patent number: 11629313
    Abstract: A unit dose detergent pack includes a pouch and a detergent composition encapsulated within the pouch. The detergent composition includes a surfactant component including an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide and is present in an amount of from about 5 to about 30 weight percent actives, water present in a total amount of from about 5 to about 30 weight percent, and a particular tertiary amine present in an amount of at least about 0.5 weight percent actives. The detergent composition has a viscosity of less than about 5,000 cps when diluted with additional water at about a 2:1 weight ratio of the detergent composition:water. The block copolymer is incorporated as a rheology modifying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski
  • Patent number: 11603509
    Abstract: The need for an acidic liquid hard surface cleaning composition which provides improved removal of grease residues, while still being effective at removing limes-scale, is met by formulating an acidic liquid hard surface cleaning composition with an alkyl pyrrolidone, and additional nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of: alkoxylated nonionic surfactant, alkyl polyglucoside, and mixtures thereof, while limiting the amount of anionic surfactant present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raphael Angeline Alfons Ceulemans, Stefanos Kantaridis
  • Patent number: 11603510
    Abstract: A solid hard surface cleaning composition suitable for replacing liquid formulations while providing at least equivalent or enhanced cleaning performance, including at lower concentrations, is provided. The solid hard surface cleaning compositions include alkali metal carbonate alkalinity source(s), aminocarboxylic acid chelant(s), amphoteric surfactant(s), polyacrylate polymer(s) and anionic surfactant(s). The solid hard surface cleaning compositions can include additional functional ingredients, such as corrosion inhibitors. The solid hard surface cleaning compositions do not include hydroxide alkalinity and beneficially provide stable ready-to-use formulations that are safe for contact without the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and are compatible with soft metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Hilina Emiru, Erik C. Olson
  • Patent number: 11597897
    Abstract: Water-soluble film and unit dose articles made therefrom, where the water-soluble film includes a water-soluble polymer, where the water-soluble polymer includes a blend of a caseinate polymer and a polyvinyl alcohol homopolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Florence Catherine Courchay, Jie Ma
  • Patent number: 11584900
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present methods and solutions that operate to prepare a metal surface to be ready for coating or primer. The surface is operated on using mechanical or pressure impingement operation in conjunction with application of medium comprising dimethylethanolamine (DMEA) and water (DMEA diluted in water). Embodiments of the present invention can perform the wash or decontamination to leave a clean surface that provides excellent performance in durability and rust resistance after being coated or primed. Other cleaning chemicals if added may reduce the performance and interfere with the desired objective. Other surfaces are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Corrosion Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Knocke, Marlin Lester
  • Patent number: 11572532
    Abstract: An antimicrobial cleaning composition having a pH of from about 9 to about 14 wherein the composition comprises a bispyridinium alkane antimicrobial active and the composition is substantially free of a quaternary ammonium antimicrobial active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Abigail Mary Konya, Adam Simon Hayward, Eva Maria Perez-Prat Vinuesa
  • Patent number: 11572530
    Abstract: Compositions and methods of the invention are directed to the removal of solid films, and particularly paint layers, from substrates, and particularly smooth, porous, and/or mineralogically fragile substrates such as sandstone. The compositions include cooked aqueous solutions of starch. The compositions can advantageously remove paints and other unwanted solid films from these and other substrates without damaging the substrate itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Sara R. Clark, Ali Lange, Savanna J. Peake, Yasmin Shashova, Andrew R. Wolff
  • Patent number: 11566207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 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: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Tobias Neil Foster, Dirk Kullwitz, Beana Pathicheril
  • Patent number: 11560537
    Abstract: The present application is related to a container made of a polymer and containing a single unit dose of a detergent composition. The detergent composition contains at least two complexing agents (A) dissolved in an aqueous medium. The complexing agents (A) are (A1) at least one alkali metal salt of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA), and (A2) at least one alkali metal salt of glutamic acid diacetic acid (GLDA). The complexing agents (A1) and (A2) are partially neutralized with alkali and the weight ratio of (A1) and (A2) ranges from 1:9 to 9:1. The aqueous medium contains at least 25% by weight of water relative to the entire liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marta Reinoso Garcia, Verena Mormul, Thomas Schmidt, Jeremy T Manning
  • Patent number: 11560529
    Abstract: A system and method for a metal sequestration composition comprising combining a galactaric salt or galactaric acid with a metalloid oxyanion, and an alkali compound. The system and method enable the production of a metal sequestration composition that either alone or in combination with other functional components (e.g. surfactants, solvents, pH modifiers) provide water treatment or cleaning compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZestBio, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Protzko, Luke Latimer
  • Patent number: 11560531
    Abstract: The need for a container and detergent composition which exhibit good cleaning, including on greasy soils, and good surface shine, while also maintaining spray visibility on the treated hard surface, is met by formulating an aqueous detergent composition using a low level of surfactant system, an aminoalcohol solvent, and a glycol ether solvent, at the specified ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Deepak Ahirwal, Denis Alfred Gonzales, Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Cindy Jean, Muriel Cuilleret, Valerie Perdigon