Patents by Inventor Brian Xiaoqing Song

Brian Xiaoqing Song 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: 11904036
    Abstract: A clear personal cleansing composition having an anionic surfactant, a cationic deposition polymer, an aqueous carrier and a level of inorganic salt of from about 0 to about 1 wt %. The composition is substantially free of sulfates and has a % T of greater than about 80%. The composition can further comprise amphoteric surfactants. The composition remains phase stable and minimizes coacervate formulation until after dilution with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Brooke Michele Cochran, Howard David Hutton, III, Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Peter Herbert Koenig
  • Publication number: 20230190588
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo article having a plurality of fibrous elements. The fibrous elements contain one or more polymeric structurants; one or more cationic polymers, a surfactant system, and two or more salts that include an inorganic salt and an organic salt. The plurality of fibrous elements are intertangled or otherwise associated with one another to form the fibrous article. The present invention provides a dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo articles having an adequate strength during manufacturing while not slowing down the dissolution of the structure during usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Xiaoqing Song
  • Patent number: 11679066
    Abstract: A dissolvable fibrous solid shampoo article containing fibrous elements. The fibrous elements can contain a polymeric structurant, a surfactant, and optionally a cationic polymer. The fibrous article is substantially free of lamellar structures and can have a hand dissolution of less than 15 strokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Min Mao, Dinah Achola Nyangiro, Brandon Michael Taylor, Mark William Hamersky
  • Publication number: 20230125210
    Abstract: Personal cleansing compositions having an anionic surfactant, cationic deposition polymer, a level of inorganic salt of from about 0 to about 1 wt %, and an aqueous carrier. The composition is substantially free of sulfate containing surfactants. The composition can further comprise amphoteric surfactants. The composition remains phase stable, and minimizes coacervate formulation until after dilution with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Brooke Michele Cochran, Brian Xiaoqing Song, Howard David Hutton, III, Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Peter Herbert Koenig
  • Publication number: 20230089671
    Abstract: A clear personal cleansing composition having an anionic surfactant, a cationic deposition polymer, an aqueous carrier and a level of inorganic salt of from about 0 to about 1 wt %. The composition is substantially free of sulfates and has a % T of greater than about 80%. The composition can further comprise amphoteric surfactants. The composition remains phase stable and minimizes coacervate formulation until after dilution with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Brooke Michele Cochran, Howard David Hutton, III, Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Peter Herbert Koenig
  • Patent number: 11607373
    Abstract: A clear personal cleansing composition having an anionic surfactant, a cationic deposition polymer, an aqueous carrier and a level of inorganic salt of from about 0 to about 1 wt %. The composition is substantially free of sulfates and has a % T of greater than about 80%. The composition can further comprise amphoteric surfactants. The composition remains phase stable and minimizes coacervate formulation until after dilution with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Brooke Michele Cochran, Howard David Hutton, III, Andrei Sergeevich Bureiko, Peter Herbert Koenig
  • Patent number: 11311469
    Abstract: Described herein, a water-soluble personal cleansing product including a water-soluble fibrous structure; wherein the water-soluble fibrous structure comprises a plurality of fibrous elements; wherein the plurality of fibrous elements comprises one or more fibrous element-forming materials comprising one or more polyvinyl alcohols; and one or more active agents present within the plurality of fibrous elements, wherein the one or more active agents comprise one or more surfactants, wherein the one or more surfactants comprise at least one glutamate surfactant according to the general formula (I): wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched alkyl or alkenyl chain with from 5 to 20 carbon atoms; and M is H, ammonium, triethanolammonium (TEA), sodium or potassium and mixtures thereof; and wherein the water-soluble fibrous structure is substantially free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Shiqing Wei, Min Mao, Susan Adair Griffiths-Brophy, Gerald John Guskey, Brian Xiaoqing Song
  • Publication number: 20210401677
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo article made from a plurality of fibrous elements intertangled or otherwise associated with one another to form the fibrous article. The fibrous elements can contain a polymeric structurant, a surfactant system that is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants, and a pH adjuster that is a monoprotic organic acid and/or a coating comprising an additive that can be a hydratrope or a diprotic and triprotic organic acid and salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Brian Xiaoqing Song
  • Patent number: 11129775
    Abstract: A method of treating hair or skin with a creamy foam. The method comprises dispensing a personal care composition from a mechanical foam dispenser as a dosage of foam, applying the dosage of foam to hair or skin, and rinsing the dosage of foam from hair or skin. The personal hair composition contains a surfactant system that is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The personal hair composition has a viscosity of less than 60 cP and a lather volume greater than 77 cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11116704
    Abstract: A compact, stable shampoo composition containing a cationic polymer and from about 20% to about 40%, by weight, of a surfactant system. The shampoo composition is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The surfactant system contains acyl glutamate and one or more co-surfactants. The weight ratio of acyl glutamate to total surfactant can be less than 0.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11116705
    Abstract: A clear or translucent, stable, compact shampoo composition exhibiting good wet conditioning. The shampoo contains a cationic polymer and a surfactant system. The cationic polymer has an average molecular weight from about 50,000 g/mol to about 1,200,000 g/mol. The sulfate system contains an amino acid based surfactant and is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The shampoo also has a relatively low viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11116703
    Abstract: A compact shampoo composition containing a cationic polymer and from about 20% to about 40%, by weight, of a surfactant system. The shampoo composition is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The surfactant system contains acyl glutamate, sodium cocoyl isethionate, and a zwitterionic surfactant. The weight ratio of zwitterionic surfactant to sodium cocoyl isethionate can be greater than 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20210145716
    Abstract: The present invention is directed a shampoo composition for hair frizz reduction comprising from about 0.1% to about 20% of a moisture control material or mixture of moisture control materials wherein the moisture control material is selected from one or more of the following: Class II having the structure selected from: a) wherein R is hydrogen or metal ion, R6 is methyl, ethyl, propyl, alkenyl or phenyl having less than 12 carbon atoms and wherein R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 are hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, phenyl, hydroxyl, methoxy or ethoxy groups; b) an alcohol wherein R13 is an alkyl, alkenyl, straight or branched carbon chains and; and wherein R14 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, methyl, ethyl and propyl wherein the structure of such alcohol contains less than 20 total carbon atoms; c) alcohol comprising an unsaturated double bond in the C2 position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Supriya Punyani, Brian Xiaoqing Song, Jennifer Mary Marsh, Tiffany Tien-Yun Yang
  • Publication number: 20200405605
    Abstract: Described herein, a water-soluble personal cleansing product including a water-soluble fibrous structure; wherein the water-soluble fibrous structure comprises a plurality of fibrous elements; wherein the plurality of fibrous elements comprises one or more fibrous element-forming materials comprising one or more polyvinyl alcohols; and one or more active agents present within the plurality of fibrous elements, wherein the one or more active agents comprise one or more surfactants, wherein the one or more surfactants comprise at least one glutamate surfactant according to the general formula (I): wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched alkyl or alkenyl chain with from 5 to 20 carbon atoms; and M is H, ammonium, triethanolammonium (TEA), sodium or potassium and mixtures thereof; and wherein the water-soluble fibrous structure is substantially free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Karl Shiqing WEI, Min NMN MAO, Susan Adair GRIFFITHS-BROPHY, Gerald John GUSKEY, Brian Xiaoqing SONG
  • Publication number: 20200405587
    Abstract: A dissolvable fibrous solid shampoo article containing fibrous elements. The fibrous elements can contain a polymeric structurant, a surfactant, and optionally a cationic polymer. The fibrous article is substantially free of lamellar structures and can have a hand dissolution of less than 15 strokes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Min Mao, Dinah Achola Nyangiro, Brandon Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 10765618
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hair conditioning composition comprising: a cationic surfactant; a high melting point fatty compound; a preformed emulsion and/or an ionic benefit agent, wherein the ionic benefit agents are those excluding ionic dyes, precursors thereof, and anionic surfactants; an alkyl ether and/or alkyl ester, preferably alkyl ether, of at least one of the following: polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, polyglycerin, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the alkyl ether and/or alkyl ester has from about 50 to about 300 units of ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerin and mixtures thereof; and an aqueous carrier. The composition of the present invention provides benefits from ionic benefit agents and/or preformed emulsions, while maintaining stability and wet conditioning of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Iwata, Brian Xiaoqing Song
  • Publication number: 20200163846
    Abstract: A method of treating hair or skin with a creamy foam. The method comprises dispensing a personal care composition from a mechanical foam dispenser as a dosage of foam, applying the dosage of foam to hair or skin, and rinsing the dosage of foam from hair or skin. The personal hair composition contains a surfactant system that is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The personal hair composition has a viscosity of less than 60 cP and a lather volume greater than 77 cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides
  • Patent number: 10561591
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing hair frizz by treating hair with a regimen comprising two or more hair care compositions wherein at least two of such compositions comprise Moisture Control Materials. Two or more of the compositions used in the method comprise from about 0.1% to about 20% of a moisture control material or mixture of moisture control materials wherein the moisture control material is selected from the group consisting of Class I and Class II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Supriya Punyani, Lisa Jo Bartz, Brian Xiaoqing Song, Jennifer Mary Marsh, Erica Vincil Buckner, Tiffany Tien-Yun Yang, Christina Marie Gemmer
  • Patent number: 10441519
    Abstract: The invention relates stable, low viscosity hair care compositions having high surfactant content comprising linear sulfates (with alkyl tail of C12 and above) and branched sulfates (with alkyl tail of C12 and above), a water-miscible solvent such as dipropylene glycol or glycerin. Suitable compositions have a ratio of (Linear anionic surfactant/Branched anionic surfactant)/Miscible solvent from about 0.2 to about 5 and a viscosity of less than about 500 cP at 26.5° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean Jianqun Zhao, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides, Karl Shiqing Wei, Peter Herbert Koenig, Howard David Hutton, III, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Xiaoru Jenny Wang, Brian Xiaoqing Song, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 10426713
    Abstract: A method of treating hair or skin with a creamy foam. The method comprises dispensing a personal care composition from a mechanical foam dispenser as a dosage of foam, applying the dosage of foam to hair or skin, and rinsing the dosage of foam from hair or skin. The personal hair composition contains a surfactant system that is substantially free of sulfate-based surfactants. The personal hair composition has a viscosity of less than 60 cP and a lather volume greater than 77 cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides