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).
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Patent number: 12129600Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Publication number: 20240044084Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Patent number: 11795623Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Publication number: 20220081844Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventor: Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Patent number: 10689810Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190352853Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, JR.
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Patent number: 10422083Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190119853Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek
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Patent number: 10208427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek
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Publication number: 20180363244Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Peter SIERRA, Lisa Maria KOCOUREK
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Publication number: 20180142422Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Tammy Lynn Baum, Benjamin Peter Sierra, James Leo Baggot, Eric Kent Isom, JR.
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Patent number: 7517433Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20080059324Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Andrew Peter Bakken, Mike Thomas Goulet, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Publication number: 20060243405Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Kenneth Zwick, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Michael Rekoske, Kathy Richardson, Paul Pauling, Mark Alan Burazin, Gary Shanklin, Thomas Kremer, Benjamin Peter Sierra
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Patent number: D757450Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Tammy Lynn Baum, James Leo Baggot, Jessie Jeannine McGuire
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Patent number: D831979Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Lisa Maria Kocourek, James Leo Baggot, Tammy Lynn Baum
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Patent number: D876844Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Peter Sierra, Renee Kristine Wagner, Linda Marie Barran, Tammy Lynn Baum, Lisa Maria Kocourek