Patents by Inventor Brian Bert Anderson

Brian Bert Anderson 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).

  • Patent number: 7684939
    Abstract: A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, IV, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Publication number: 20080046189
    Abstract: A method for measuring the partially saturated fluid transport properties of an absorbent. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, and identifying the absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Publication number: 20080046202
    Abstract: A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger