Patents Examined by Lorna M. Douyon
  • Patent number: 12258544
    Abstract: A process for making a particulate laundry detergent composition, the process includes the steps: (a) contacting water, starch, acid and perfume to form a concentrated aqueous acidic mixture, the concentrated acidic mixture includes: (i) from about 20 wt % to about 60 wt % starch; (ii) from about 10 wt % to about 50 wt % acid; (ii) from about 2 wt % to about 20 wt % perfume; (iv) from 10 wt % to less than about 45 wt % water; the concentrated acidic mixture has a pH of less than about 4.5; (b) subjecting the concentrated acidic mixture to a perfume emulsification step to emulsify the perfume to form an emulsified perfume mixture in fluid form; and (c) spraying the emulsified perfume mixture in fluid form onto base detergent particles so that the emulsified perfume mixture at least partially coats the base detergent particles to form the particulate laundry detergent composition, the base detergent particles include from about 4 wt % to about 60 wt % detersive surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Joss Prest, Zoe Dyter, Eric San Jose Robles, Hossam Hassan Tantawy
  • Patent number: 12247182
    Abstract: A liquid laundry composition having from about 6% to about 50%, by weight of the laundry composition, of a surfactant component. The surfactant component having from about 0.5% to about 30%, by weight of the laundry composition, of an HLAS surfactant selected from alkyl benzene sulfonic acids, alkali metal or amine salts of C10-16 alkyl benzene sulfonic acids, wherein the HLAS surfactant comprises greater than 50% C12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Phillip Kyle Vinson, Randall Thomas Reilman, Patrick Christopher Stenger, Cheyne Thomas
  • Patent number: 12247183
    Abstract: A water-soluble unit dose article containing a water-soluble film and a liquid laundry detergent composition having a first anionic surfactant, and a method of making the water-soluble unit dose article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Phillip Kyle Vinson, Vincent John Becks, Rebecca Ann Langevin, Mu Wang, Hilde Francoise Louise Andriessen, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers
  • Patent number: 12247184
    Abstract: A detergent composition having a) from about 10% to about 60%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant system wherein the surfactant system includes: i) at least 35%, by weight of the surfactant system, of nonionic surfactant and ii) from 5% to about 20%, by weight of the surfactant system, of amine oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Coffin Shearouse, Kevin Bernard Kluesener, Samuel John Moskal
  • Patent number: 12241043
    Abstract: An active composition delivery system having a water-soluble top layer, a water-soluble bottom layer, and an active composition disposed therebetween. The water-soluble top and bottom layers are joined together to form a pouch sized and shaped to hold an amount of an active composition. The active composition delivery system further includes a plurality of water-soluble joints, joining the top and bottom water-soluble layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DIZOLVE GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dieter G. Seiler
  • Patent number: 12232673
    Abstract: A cleaning implement for cleaning a target surface is provided that includes an erodible foam adapted to contact a surface to be cleaned and a rheological solid composition comprising a crystallizing agent and an aqueous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Lawrence Lynch, Brandon Philip Illie, Taotao Zhu, Jamie Lynn Dria, Randall Glenn Marsh
  • Patent number: 12234428
    Abstract: Pouches, for example pouches that contain one or more active agents, such as a fabric care active agent or dishwashing active agent and/or detergent compositions, and more particularly pouches employing a water-soluble fibrous wall material, pouches employing a fibrous wall material that ruptures during use, and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Hailing Bao, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 12227720
    Abstract: Consumer product compositions, such as fabric care compositions, that include first and second populations of encapsulates, where at least one of the populations is characterized by a relatively high core:shell weight ratio. Methods related to the use and making of such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, An Pintens, Conny Erna Alice Joos, Joana Andreia Lameiras Domingues, Fadi Selim Chakar, Linsheng Feng, Presley Genevie Neuman, Robert Stanley Bobnock
  • Patent number: 12209231
    Abstract: This invention relates to a laundry care composition comprising a laundry care ingredient and a polymeric thiophene hueing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Wesley A. Freund, Richard Lawson, Sanjeev K. Dey, Nolan Peevy
  • Patent number: 12195703
    Abstract: This invention relates to a laundry care composition comprising a laundry care ingredient and a polymeric thiophene hueing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Wesley A. Freund, Richard Lawson, Sanjeev K. Dey, Nolan Peevy
  • Patent number: 12180436
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of individual particles. The individual particles include a water soluble carrier and a fabric care benefit active agent. Each individual particle has a flat bottom, a rounded top, and maximum height. Each individual particle has a porous bottom third, a porous middle third, and a porous top third. The bottom third average pore radius and the top third average pore radius differ by less than about 15 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kristin Rhedrick Williams, Richard Albert Huddleston, Ke Ming Quan
  • Patent number: 12146119
    Abstract: A dissolvable toilet cleaning solid tablet includes an anionic surfactant; virgin soap pellets; and borax, and desirably, a carbonate or bicarbonate salt; and an acid. The borax comprises about 0.5% to about 10% by weight of the composition, and the virgin soap pellets comprise about 12% to about 25% by weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Christopher Michael Rodriguez, John Daniel Konikowski
  • Patent number: 12134749
    Abstract: The application relates to a shaped detergent product comprising 10-100 wt. % of a solid amorphous phase and 0-90 wt. % of one or more other solid phases, wherein the solid amorphous phase comprises 25-88 wt. % free acid equivalent of aminopolycarboxylate, 10-60 wt. % free acid equivalent of an acid, wherein the acid is not an aminopolycarboxylate and 2-30 wt. % water and wherein the shaped detergent product contains at least 0.5 wt. % surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Hélène Julie Marie Arlabosse, Robert Jan Moll
  • Patent number: 12129452
    Abstract: A liquid laundry additive is provided, comprising a cleaning booster polymer having structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) wherein x is an average of 0 to 20, wherein y is an average of 0 to 30 and wherein x+y is at least 1; and, optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (II) wherein R1 is independently selected from a —C1-4 alkyl, and wherein R2 is independently selected from H and methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Roy Roberts
  • Patent number: 12129448
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose article containing a laundry detergent composition containing a capsule having a core and a shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andre Martim Barros, Mariana B. T. Cardoso, Johan Smets, Steven Daryl Smith, Pierre Daniel Verstraete, Valerie Wong, Robby Renilde François Keuleers
  • Patent number: 12129447
    Abstract: A cleaning wipe having a nonwoven substrate impregnated with a dispersal composition including at least one of a polar solvent and a water-in-oil emulsion is disclosed. The dispersal composition provides an enhancement to the dispersion of the nonwoven substrate including a binder when placed within a waste water stream after use, thereby more effectively disposing of the wipe after use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Rockline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas B. Cole, Shankar Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 12129451
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid article that is formed by a homogeneous mixture. The mixture includes from about 10% to about 50% of a water soluble polymer, from about 5% to about 80% of a surfactant; and from about 0.1% to about 40%, of a silicone. The silicone can have a particle size of from about 50 nm to about 25 micron. The silicone can have the article contains up to 0.2% nitrogen coming from the silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mui Siang Soh, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Todd Ryan Thompson
  • Patent number: 12129454
    Abstract: A method of making a non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet can include dispensing a microcapsule onto a precursor non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet, wherein the precursor non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet can include: (a) at least one surfactant; (b) at least one film former; and (c) a thickness ranging from 0.1 mm to 10 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hongsing Tan, Ming Tang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome
  • Patent number: 12129450
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent formulation is provided, comprising: a liquid carrier; a cleaning surfactant; and a cleaning booster polymer, wherein the cleaning booster polymer has structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) and, optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (II)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Roy Roberts
  • Patent number: 12122979
    Abstract: A cleaning article for cleaning a target surface is provided that includes a substrate having a first surface and second surface and a rheological solid composition comprising a crystallizing agent and an aqueous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Lawrence Lynch, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Brandon Philip Illie, Taotao Zhu, Jamie Lynn Dria