Patents Examined by Gregory R. Delcotto
  • Patent number: 11725162
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions, methods of manufacture, and methods for reducing metal corrosion during alkaline cleaning. In particular, the method employs an alkylamino hydroxy acid, secondary amine, or combination thereof in alkaline cleaning of hard surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Stokes, Carter M. Silvernail, Paul Frazer Schacht, Anthony W. Erickson
  • Patent number: 11702616
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of general formula (I), in which each E independently represents O or NR1, with the proviso that at least 1 E is not O and at least 1 R1 represents a substituted C1-22 alkyl of the general formula (IIa) or (IIb) or (IIIa) or (IIIb), in which Q represents O or CH2, w represents a number from 1 to 22, q represents 1 or 2 and A+ represents a cation selected from alkali metal cations where q=1, ½ alkaline earth cations where q=2 and ammonium ions where q=1, as well as metal complexes having this ligand compound and dishwashing detergents which contain such metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christian Kropf, Sebastian Polarz, Marvin Lionel Frisch
  • Patent number: 11702617
    Abstract: Methods of cleaning waxy, oily and/or greasy soils, including lipsticks and lip gloss, are disclosed. Methods of removing lipstick and lip gloss stains in laundry applications are disclosed through application of alkaline cleaning compositions comprising branched polyamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kerrie E. Walters, Jennifer Stokes, Carter M. Silvernail, Paige Owens, Ali Bichler, Sukhwan Soontravanich
  • Patent number: 11697788
    Abstract: A method and composition for removing contaminant material from industrial equipment are disclosed herein. The method includes providing a solvent composition having methyl soyate, N-methylpyrrolidinone, an additional solvent, and a cationic surfactant. The method also includes contacting the contaminant material with the solvent composition and allowing the solvent composition to react with the contaminant material such that at least a portion of the contaminant material is no longer attached to the industrial equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: United Laboratories International, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen D. Matza, Dana M. Archuleta
  • Patent number: 11690794
    Abstract: An aqueous personal care composition comprising: one or more amphoacetates; one or more glutamate surfactants selected from sodium lauroyl glutamate, dipotassium cocoyl glutamate, potassium lauryl/myristoyl glutamate and combinations thereof; and cocamide MIPA; wherein the composition is free of sulfates and ethoxylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rhodia Operations
    Inventors: Mary Ronan, Rajesh Patel
  • Patent number: 11692155
    Abstract: A cleaning composition is provided herein. The cleaning composition includes a plurality of metal particles and a base fluid. The plurality of metal particles have an average size in a range of from about 1 nanometer (nm) to about 10,000 micrometers (?m), and are dispersed in the base fluid. The cleaning composition is configured to generate an exothermic reaction when contacted with one or more components on a surface and water to facilitate removal of the one or more components from the surface. Methods of making and utilizing the cleaning composition are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
    Inventor: Zhifeng Ren
  • 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: 11685880
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a peroxide based cleaning composition comprising a peroxide; a builder; a surfactant; a peroxide stabilizer; and remainder water and optional adjuvant. In various embodiments, the cleaning composition comprises hydrogen peroxide, sodium bicarbonate, a vegetable fatty acid potassium soap, glycerin, water and essential oil. The peroxide based cleaning composition exhibits storage stability for up to about 9-months and provides cleaning efficacy on a wide variety of hard surfaces and fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Distinctive Cleaning and Maintenance Services Incorporated
    Inventor: Dori Stolmaker
  • 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: 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: 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: 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