Patents Examined by M. Reza Asdjodi
  • Patent number: 11447722
    Abstract: A detergent composition for improved textile softening and anti-redeposition includes a surfactant component, water, and a cationic polymer. The surfactant component includes (1) an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide, (2) at least one non-ionic surfactant having an alkoxylated alcohol; and (3) at least one anionic surfactant having a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. The surfactants (1), (2), and (3) are present in a weight ratio of actives of about (0 to 0.55):(0 to 0.55):(0.15 to 0.9), so long as at least two of (1), (2), and (3) are each present in an amount of greater than zero. Water is present in a total amount of from about 10 to about 85 weight percent while the cationic polymer is present in an amount of from about 0.05 to about 1 weight percent actives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski
  • Patent number: 11450448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a linear octafluorobutene as a dielectric compound in an environmentally safe dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Charles Doiron, Thomas Alfred Paul, Branimir Radisavljevic, Nitesh Ranjan, Anna Di-Gianni, Saskia Scheel
  • Patent number: 11427786
    Abstract: A detergent composition includes a surfactant component present in an amount of from about 5 to about 70 weight percent actives based on a total weight of the composition, water present in an amount of from about 5 to about 90 weight percent based on a total weight of the composition, polyvinyl alcohol particles present in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 5 weight percent based on a total weight of the composition, and a functional material that is encapsulated in the polyvinyl alcohol particles and is chosen from enzymes, surfactants, functional polymers, and combinations thereof and present in an amount of from about 0.05 to about 2 weight percent actives based on a total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Janet Coope-Epstein, Wei W. Sun
  • Patent number: 11421190
    Abstract: A detergent additive comprising an active, the active comprising one or both of tetraacetylethylenediamine and triacetylethylenediamine; and polyvinyl butyral. A method of preparing a detergent additive comprising providing a solvent to a reaction mixture; providing polyvinyl butyral to the reaction mixture; providing an active to the reaction mixture, the active comprising one or both of tetraacetylethylenediamine and triacetylethylenediamine; mixing the reaction mixture; and spray-drying the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Xue Chen
  • Patent number: 11407965
    Abstract: A detergent additive comprising an active, the active comprising one or both of tetraacetylethylenediamine or triacetylethylenediamine; and a copolymer having maleic anhydride-based repeat units and either or both of olefinic or styrenic-based repeat units; and wherein at least a portion of the maleic anhydride-based repeat units are neutralized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Xue Chen, Xin Jin, Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 11397383
    Abstract: A treatment liquid for a semiconductor device contains an organic alkali compound, a corrosion inhibitor, an organic solvent, Ca, Fe, and Na, in which each of the mass ratio of the Ca, the mass ratio of the Fe, and the mass ratio of the Na to the organic alkali compound in the treatment liquid is 10—12 to 10?4. A method for washing a substrate and a method for removing a resist use the treatment liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Takahashi, Tetsuya Kamimura
  • Patent number: 11398321
    Abstract: The invention concerns methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts using certain fluorinated nitroalkanes, as well as compositions and apparatus comprising such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Solvay SA
    Inventors: Jean Fabre, Ferdinand Hardinghaus, Holger Pernice, Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel, Helmut Beckers, Simon Steinhauer, Jan Hendrick Nissen
  • Patent number: 11377626
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid, enzymatic detergent compositions and methods of making and using the same. In a preferred embodiment, the detergent compositions are particularly useful for cleaning medical and dental instruments. In a preferred embodiment the compositions are particularly use for cleaning ware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Erik C. Olson, David Riehm, Carter M. Silvernail, Olivia N. L. Finster, Michael S. Rischmiller, Timothy Meier
  • Patent number: 11365378
    Abstract: A composition for a highly effective laundry detergent is disclosed specifically tailored to the needs of cleaning soiled cloth diapers without employing known skin irritants and without persistent residue accumulation. The present invention discloses a composition comprising a surface active agent, a water softener, a surface tension reducer, a bleaching agent and a pH balancing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ESEMBLY INC.
    Inventor: Elizabeth Turrigiano
  • Patent number: 11359168
    Abstract: The invention relates to stable, anhydrous laundry detergent concentrated formulation in solid forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: One Home Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Syed Humza Naqvi
  • Patent number: 11359166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fabric treatment composition capable of enhancing cleaning properties of a soil during cleaning through treatment of a fabric to be treated and a method for treating a fabric with the fabric treatment composition. The fabric treatment composition is a fabric treatment composition containing a hydroxyalkyl cellulose (A) in which a hydroxyalkyl cellulose is bound to at least one selected from a cationic group and a hydrophobic group including a hydrocarbon group having 4 or more carbon atoms, the content of a surfactant (B) being 3.5 parts by mass or less relative to 1 part by mass of the hydroxyalkyl cellulose (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamawaki, Takanori Saito, Yoichiro Imori, Akihiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 11353794
    Abstract: Improved stripper solutions for removing photoresists from substrates are provided that typically have freezing points below about 0° C. and high loading capacities. The stripper solutions comprise dimethyl sulfoxide, quaternary ammonium hydroxide, and an alkanolamine having at least two carbon atoms, at least one amino substituent and at least one hydroxyl substituent, the amino and hydroxyl substituents attached to two different carbon atoms. Some formulations can additionally contain a secondary solvent. The formulations do not contain tetramethylammonium hydroxide. Methods for use of the stripping solutions are additionally provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Dalton Peters, Michael T. Phenis
  • Patent number: 11345878
    Abstract: Provided among other things are a cleaning composition comprising a carrier fluid comprising in the carrier fluid polymer comprising particulate super absorbent polymer (PSAP), wherein the PSAP as in the cleaning composition is substantially at the percolation volume fraction or higher; wherein the cleaning composition can be passed over a surface driven by a pressure drop effective to render the composition traditional biofilm (TBF) cleaning effective and protein cleaning effective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Novaflux Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Emam Labib, Stanislav S. Dukhin, Yacoob Tabani, Ching-Yue Lai, James L. Manganaro, Peter Materna, Jeffrey C. Robertson, Seo Yean Sohn
  • Patent number: 11339354
    Abstract: Detergent compositions and methods of preparing and using the detergent compositions are disclosed. The detergent compositions comprise a polymer system comprising at least one polycarboxylic acid polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, an alkalinity source comprising an alkali metal carbonate, a nonionic surfactant and water. The detergent compositions are suitable at alkaline pH and reduce or prevent scale formation, improve soil dispersion, and provide effective detergency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: David Dotzauer, Timothy Meier, Carter M. Silvernail, John Mansergh
  • Patent number: 11339331
    Abstract: A method of producing a non-petroleum based electrical insulating oil, wherein the method can include providing a primary mixture of non-petroleum origin, containing isomerized straight chain hydrocarbons; performing a distillation and/or stripping of the primary mixture; collecting a paraffinic base oil as a product of the distillation and/or stripping, containing a mixture of isoalkanes and alkanes; and mixing the base oil with an antioxidant additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: NESTE OYJ, AVANTHERM AB
    Inventor: Per Wiklund
  • Patent number: 11331255
    Abstract: Provided is a composition containing the following components (A), (B) and (C) and suppressing formation of scum during cleansing, wherein a weight ratio of (A)/(B) is 0.2-5 and a weight ratio of ((A)+(B))/(C) is 0.01-10: (A) N-lauroyl glycine or a salt thereof (B) N-myristoyl glycine or a salt thereof (C) N-acyl acidic amino acid having an acyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Naoaki Ikeda, Naoya Yamato
  • Patent number: 11326133
    Abstract: A laundry detergent composition comprising an anti-redeposition agent, a surfactant, and optionally a builder, wherein the anti-redeposition agent is a polymer comprising polymerized units of: (a) from 5 to 40 wt % of at least one nitrogen-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one pKa value from 6 to 11.5, and (b) from 60 to 95 wt % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Butterick, Eric Wasserman, Afua Sarpong Karikari
  • Patent number: 11319515
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a four-phase heavy-duty laundry detergent wipe, characterized by the following steps: (a) manufacturing a liquid starting laundry detergent solution which contains enzymes, surfactants and at least one polyvalent alcohol as a solubilizer and which is present in a liquid phase; (b) incorporating soap in the liquid starting laundry detergent solution to obtain a liquid laundry detergent solution (A), wherein the liquid laundry detergent solution is two-phase due to over-saturation; (c) admixing at least two different washing active solid components to the liquid laundry detergent solution (A) which are insoluble in the polyvalent alcohols of step a) to obtain a laundry detergent dispersion (B) which contains the liquid over-saturated two-phase laundry detergent solution (A) from step b) as a liquid continuous outer binary phase and the at least two washing active solid components as a solid phase; (d) applying the laundry detergent dispersion (B) to a s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Coin Consulting GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Pulina
  • Patent number: 11306275
    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: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Alessandro Corona, III, Robert Richard Dykstra, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Nicholas David Vetter, Tessa Xuan
  • Patent number: 11286426
    Abstract: A method of producing a non-petroleum based electrical insulating oil, wherein the method can include providing a primary mixture of non-petroleum origin, containing isomerized straight chain hydrocarbons; performing a distillation and/or stripping of the primary mixture; collecting a paraffinic base oil as a product of the distillation and/or stripping, containing a mixture of isoalkanes and alkanes; and mixing the base oil with an antioxidant additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: NESTE OYJ, AVANTHERM AB
    Inventor: Per Wiklund