Patents by Inventor Benjamin Peter Sierra

Benjamin Peter Sierra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240044084
    Abstract: The present invention provides rolled products, such as spirally wound rolls of bath tissue comprising a plurality of separably joined sheets, that may be repeatably and reliably dispensed by a user with a single hand. Single handed dispensing of the rolled products is facilitated by the web having a ratio of detach strength, typically having units of grams (g) to cross-machine direction (CD) tensile, having units of grams per 76.2 mm, of 0.65 or less, such as from about 0.10 to 0.65. In this manner rolled bath tissue products may have a CD tensile from about 400 to about 1,000 g/76.2 mm and a detach strength from about 100 to about 500 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Patent number: 11795623
    Abstract: The present invention provides rolled products, such as spirally wound rolls of bath tissue comprising a plurality of separably joined sheets, that may be repeatably and reliably dispensed by a user with a single hand. Single handed dispensing of the rolled products is facilitated by the web having a ratio of detach strength, typically having units of grams (g) to cross-machine direction (CD) tensile, having units of grams per 76.2 mm, of 0.65 or less, such as from about 0.10 to 0.65. In this manner rolled bath tissue products may have a CD tensile from about 400 to about 1,000 g/76.2 mm and a detach strength from about 100 to about 500 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Publication number: 20220081844
    Abstract: The present invention provides rolled products, such as spirally wound rolls of bath tissue comprising a plurality of separably joined sheets, that may be repeatably and reliably dispensed by a user with a single hand. Single handed dispensing of the rolled products is facilitated by the web having a ratio of detach strength, typically having units of grams (g) to cross-machine direction (CD) tensile, having units of grams per 76.2 mm, of 0.65 or less, such as from about 0.10 to 0.65. In this manner rolled bath tissue products may have a CD tensile from about 400 to about 1,000 g/76.2 mm and a detach strength from about 100 to about 500 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Patent number: 10689810
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a decorative tissue product, while controlling tensile degradation in a predicable fashion. The foregoing properties may be achieved using differential depth embossing in conjunction with an embossing pattern having particular characteristics. The use of an engraved roll, such as an embossing roll, having protuberances of differing depths and patterns not only improves the properties and characteristics of the fibrous structure, but may also be used to impart a unique pattern that provides the product with a distinctive look and is appealing to consumers. Generally the unique pattern results from a first set of protuberances having a first height and defining a first pattern and a second set of embossing elements having a second height and defining a second pattern, where the first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190352853
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a decorative tissue product, while controlling tensile degradation in a predicable fashion. The foregoing properties may be achieved using differential depth embossing in conjunction with an embossing pattern having particular characteristics. The use of an engraved roll, such as an embossing roll, having protuberances of differing depths and patterns not only improves the properties and characteristics of the fibrous structure, but may also be used to impart a unique pattern that provides the product with a distinctive look and is appealing to consumers. Generally the unique pattern results from a first set of protuberances having a first height and defining a first pattern and a second set of embossing elements having a second height and defining a second pattern, where the first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, JR.
  • Patent number: 10422083
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a decorative tissue product, while controlling tensile degradation in a predicable fashion. The foregoing properties may be achieved using differential depth embossing in conjunction with an embossing pattern having particular characteristics. The use of an engraved roll, such as an embossing roll, having protuberances of differing depths and patterns not only improves the properties and characteristics of the fibrous structure, but may also be used to impart a unique pattern that provides the product with a distinctive look and is appealing to consumers. Generally the unique pattern results from a first set of protuberances having a first height and defining a first pattern and a second set of embossing elements having a second height and defining a second pattern, where the first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190119853
    Abstract: The present invention provides a patterned tissue product comprising a first surface with a first and a second pattern disposed thereon, the first pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a first maximum segment length and the second pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a second maximum segment length wherein the second maximum segment length is from about 50 to about 150 percent of the first maximum segment length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek
  • Patent number: 10208427
    Abstract: The present invention provides a patterned tissue product comprising a first surface with a first and a second pattern disposed thereon, the first pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a first maximum segment length and the second pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a second maximum segment length wherein the second maximum segment length is from about 50 to about 150 percent of the first maximum segment length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek
  • Publication number: 20180363244
    Abstract: The present invention provides a patterned tissue product comprising a first surface with a first and a second pattern disposed thereon, the first pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a first maximum segment length and the second pattern comprising a curvilinear design element having a second maximum segment length wherein the second maximum segment length is from about 50 to about 150 percent of the first maximum segment length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter SIERRA, Lisa Maria KOCOUREK
  • Publication number: 20180142422
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a decorative tissue product, while controlling tensile degradation in a predicable fashion. The foregoing properties may be achieved using differential depth embossing in conjunction with an embossing pattern having particular characteristics. The use of an engraved roll, such as an embossing roll, having protuberances of differing depths and patterns not only improves the properties and characteristics of the fibrous structure, but may also be used to impart a unique pattern that provides the product with a distinctive look and is appealing to consumers. Generally the unique pattern results from a first set of protuberances having a first height and defining a first pattern and a second set of embossing elements having a second height and defining a second pattern, where the first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, JR.
  • Patent number: 7517433
    Abstract: Tissues having a high level of softness and hand protection in combination with improved cleaning are disclosed. The tissues have been shown to remove more mucus than commercially available tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth John Zwick, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Michael John Rekoske, Kathy Geralyn Richardson, Paul Kerner Pauling, Mark Alan Burazin, Gary Lee Shanklin, Thomas Kremer, Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Publication number: 20080059324
    Abstract: Facial tissue products can be customized by providing readers or customers of topical mediums, such as topical magazines or websites, with related graphics and tissue basesheet options through an advertisement in the magazine or website that directs the reader to a website. Through the website, the reader can select and order their customized products, which can be shipped directly to the reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Bakken, Mike Thomas Goulet, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Publication number: 20060243405
    Abstract: Tissues having a high level of softness and hand protection in combination with improved cleaning are disclosed. The tissues have been shown to remove more mucus than commercially available tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth Zwick, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Michael Rekoske, Kathy Richardson, Paul Pauling, Mark Alan Burazin, Gary Shanklin, Thomas Kremer, Benjamin Peter Sierra
  • Patent number: D757450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Tammy Lynn Baum, James Leo Baggot, Jessie Jeannine McGuire
  • Patent number: D831979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek, James Leo Baggot, Tammy Lynn Baum
  • Patent number: D876844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Renee Kristine Wagner, Linda Marie Barran, Tammy Lynn Baum, Lisa Maria Kocourek