Patents by Inventor Bret Darren Seitz
Bret Darren Seitz 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: 12121423Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core is described. A first absorbent article has a first physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core, and a second absorbent article has a second physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core. The first physical feature has a first length between 27 and 77 percent of a first absorbent core length. The second physical feature has a second length between 27 and 77 percent of a second absorbent core length. The first length is less than the second length, and the first physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the first absorbent article and/or the second physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the second absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Douglas Gregory Stevens
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Patent number: 12121431Abstract: A durable underwear brief panty adapted to accommodate an absorbent component is disclosed. The panty may include a crotch portion that exhibits a crotch longitudinal Elongation of 5 percent to 100 percent and a crotch longitudinal Tensile Modulus of 20 gf/mm to 100 gf/mm; and a crotch lateral Elongation of 50 percent to 200 percent and a crotch lateral Tensile Modulus of 2 gf/mm to 20 gf/mm. A combination of a brief panty and an absorbent pad, and an array including a brief panty product and an absorbent pad product, are also disclosed. The products are useful for management of incontinence.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Frederick Michael Langdon, Bret Darren Seitz, Janice Faye Swinford
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Patent number: 12115043Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate Section-Modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette that is within from about ?0.3 to about 0.3 of the Target Body Length-to-Waist Silhouette to make the article conform better to the body of the wearer at a lower Pressure-Under-Strand, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 12109093Abstract: The present disclosure relates to one or a combination of an absorbent article's chassis, inner leg cuffs, outer leg cuffs, ear panels, side panels, waistbands, and belts that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced and/or low Average-Dtex and/or low Average-Pre-Strain elastics to deliver low Pressure Under Strand, while providing adequate Section-Modulus to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer, even with a loaded core, to provide for the advantages described above. Further, the elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure outperform existing laminates currently used for disposable absorbent articles as it relates to one or more key parameters (including Percent Contact Area, 2-98% Height Value, Pressure-Under-Strand, Air Permeability, Water Vapor Transmission Rate, Caliper, Caliper Retention Value, Cantilever Bending, Open Area, Section-Modulus, Rugosity Wavelength, Rugosity Frequency, Graphic Distortion Ratio).Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schneider, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 12109094Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette from about 0.8 to about 1.1 and a Product Waist-to-Crotch Silhouette from about 0.8 to about 2.0 to provide for the advantages described above.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Publication number: 20240293265Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent article's chassis that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics. The elastics in the chassis may be oriented parallel or transverse to the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Gary Dean LaVON, Uwe SCHNEIDER, Bret Darren SEITZ, Sarah Marie WADE, Joseph Allen ECKSTEIN
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Publication number: 20240269008Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Donning-Ratio from about 1.0 and about 3 to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Gary Dean LaVON, Bret Darren SEITZ, Uwe SCHNEIDER, Sarah Marie WADE, Joseph Allen ECKSTEIN
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Patent number: 12053359Abstract: Absorbent articles of the present disclosure may have Relaxed Product Waist Widths, Relaxed Product Hip Widths, and Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouettes as disclosed herein. And, arrays of the present disclosure may have Array Average Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouettes and Array Average Product Hip-to-Waist-to-Weight Ratio as disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Kaoru Ishihara
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Patent number: 12016753Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent article's chassis that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics. The elastics in the chassis may be oriented parallel or transverse to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schneider, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Publication number: 20240156647Abstract: An absorbent article having a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent structure comprising an open-celled absorbent foam material disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent article has been incrementally stretched along at least a first and second stretch direction, such that the topsheet and backsheet each comprise plastically stretched zones disposed substantially along a first plurality of lines of deformation being substantially perpendicular to the first stretch direction and a second plurality of lines of deformation being substantially perpendicular to the second stretch direction. The absorbent foam material is fractured substantially along the first and second plurality of lines of deformation into a plurality of discrete foam pieces that are separated from neighboring pieces by a gap. An adhesive is positioned between the topsheet and the discrete foam pieces and bonds the discrete foam pieces to the topsheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Frederick Michael LANGDON, Timothy Ian MULLANE, Bret Darren SEITZ
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Patent number: 11944523Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Donning-Ratio from about 1.0 and about 3 to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 11883269Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise two or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or greater than a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 2.2 to about 6.0.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jill Trygier, Vanessa Melendez
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Patent number: 11857401Abstract: An absorbent article may have a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from 0.5 to about 1.8 and a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean Lavon, Bret Darren Seitz, Masaharu Nishikawa, Sarah M. Wade, Franz-Josef Hermes
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Publication number: 20230381029Abstract: The present disclosure relates to one or a combination of an absorbent article's chassis, inner leg cuffs, outer leg cuffs, ear panels, side panels, waistbands, and belts that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or very fine (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm) to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Gary Dean LaVON, Uwe SCHNEIDER, Bret Darren SEITZ, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen ECKSTEIN
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Publication number: 20230346606Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise three or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And the Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a third absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 1.1 to about 0.3. Further, an Array Average Product-Hip-to-Side Silhouette may be from about 1.0 to about 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Bret Darren SEITZ, Gary Dean LAVON, Jeremy MENNER, Raymond Scott HAMILTON, Luke Robinson MAGEE
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Publication number: 20230329924Abstract: A stretch laminate is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include a layer of nonwoven material that includes an accumulation of filaments and has an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone having an attenuated region adjacent to a build-up region wherein the attenuated region has a first basis weight and the build-up region has a second basis weight greater than the first basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The stretch laminate may include a plurality of elastic strands space apart from each other in a crotch-stretch direction. In some examples the elastic strands may have an Average Strand Spacing no greater than 3 mm and/or an Average Decitex no greater than 300, and/or an Average Pre-Strain no greater than 250 percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Elizabeth Jo Bruns
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Publication number: 20230310225Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core is described. A first absorbent article has a first physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core, and a second absorbent article has a second physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core. The first physical feature has a first length between 27 and 77 percent of a first absorbent core length. The second physical feature has a second length between 27 and 77 percent of a second absorbent core length. The first length is less than the second length, and the first physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the first absorbent article and/or the second physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the second absorbent article.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Bret Darren SEITZ, Douglas Gregory STEVENS
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Patent number: 11737928Abstract: The present disclosure relates to one or a combination of an absorbent article's chassis, inner leg cuffs, outer leg cuffs, ear panels, side panels, waistbands, and belts that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or very fine (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm) to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schneider, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 11737927Abstract: The present disclosure relates to one or a combination of an absorbent article's chassis, inner leg cuffs, outer leg cuffs, ear panels, side panels, waistbands, and belts that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or very fine (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm) to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schneider, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 11723813Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise three or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And the Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a third absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 1.1 to about 0.3. Further, an Array Average Product-Hip-to-Side Silhouette may be from about 1.0 to about 1.7.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jeremy Menner, Raymond Scott Hamilton, Luke Robinson Magee