Patents by Inventor Donald Ray Brown

Donald Ray Brown 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).

  • Fabric care compositions comprising cationic starch
    Publication number: 20040204337
    Abstract: Fabric care compositions comprise cationic starch and fabric softening active, wherein the composition comprises a viscosity of less than about 2000 centipoise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, Alice Marie Ward, Yonas Gizaw, Donald Ray Brown, Anna Liza Tolentino, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Articles to aid the ironing of fabrics and methods of use
    Patent number: 6652766
    Abstract: Polymer compositions, while providing suitable wrinkle control, also tend to dispense poorly when sprayed. The present invention shows that when viscosity of polymer compositions is minimized spray dispensing improves. Several approaches to minimizing the viscosity of polymer compositions are disclosed. Methods of controlling wrinkles in fabrics comprise treating fabrics with a variety of polymer compositions following a variety of methods. Articles of manufacture comprise (1) a container or substrate, (2) a wrinkle controlling composition, and (3) a set of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Alessandro Corona, III, John Henry Shaw, Jr., John William Smith, Donald Ray Brown, Timothy Roy Nijakowski, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Gabrielle Holly Spangler Detzel, Todd Stephen Alwart, Anne Marie Candido, Stephan Gary Bush, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Ellis Bailey Gregg, Earl Bray
  • Articles to aid the ironing of fabrics and methods of use
    Publication number: 20030209686
    Abstract: Polymer compositions, while providing suitable wrinkle control, also tend to dispense poorly when sprayed. The present invention shows that when viscosity of polymer compositions is minimized spray dispensing improves. Several approaches to minimizing the viscosity of polymer compositions are disclosed. Methods of controlling wrinkles in fabrics comprise treating fabrics with a variety of polymer compositions following a variety of methods. Articles of manufacture comprise (1) a container or substrate, (2) a wrinkle controlling composition, and (3) a set of instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Alessandro Corona, John Henry Shaw, John William Smith, Donald Ray Brown, Timothy Roy Nijakowski, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Gabrielle Holly Spangler Detzel, Todd Stephen Alwart, Anne Marie Candido, Stephan Gary Bush, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Ellis Bailey Gregg, Earl Bray
  • Polymer compositions having specified PH for improved dispensing and improved stability of wrinkle reducing compositions and methods of use
    Patent number: 6491840
    Abstract: Polymer compositions, while providing suitable wrinkle control, also tend to dispense poorly when sprayed. The present invention shows that when viscosity of polymer compositions is minimized spray dispensing improves. Several approaches to minimizing the viscosity of polymer compositions are disclosed. Methods of controlling wrinkles in fabrics comprise treating fabrics with a variety of polymer compositions following a variety of methods. Articles of manufacture comprise (1) a container or substrate, (2) a wrinkle controlling composition, and (3) a set of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Toan Trinh, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Alessandro Corona, III, John Henry Shaw, Jr., John William Smith, Donald Ray Brown, Timothy Roy Nijakowski, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Gabrielle Holly (Spangler) Detzel, Todd Stephen Alwart, Anne Marie Candido, Stephan Gary Bush, Dimitris Ioannis Collias, Ellis Bailey Gregg, Earl Bray
  • Bleaching compositions
    Patent number: 6444634
    Abstract: Granular detergent compositions and in particular low density, phosphate containing detergent compositions comprise a specific bleaching system containing hydrophobic peracid bleach and hydrophilic peracid bleach and a peroxide source. These detergent compositions have specific low levels of available oxygen from hydrophobic aid hydrophilic peroxyacid bleach, specific ratios of available oxygen from the hydrophobic peracid bleach to the hydrophilic peracid bleach and specific ratios of available oxygen of the peroxide source to the available oxygen of the peracids. These specific mixed bleach systems are useful for sanitization or reduction of bacterial activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susan Judith Mason, Ludivine Pascale Grippay, Nour-Eddine Guedira, Donald Ray Brown, Michelle Frances Mellea
  • Cleaning compositions containing short-chain surfactants
    Patent number: 6180583
    Abstract: Short-chain surfactants such as octyl sulfate are used to provide a solvent-like cleaning function in detergent compositions. Preferred bleach-containing hard surface cleaners comprising the short-chain surfactants and long-chain surfactants, are especially useful for bathroom and kitchen clean-up operations. Compositions with long-plus-short chain surfactants including alkyl sulfates, olefin sulfonates, amine oxides and the like, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Ajalon Cilley, Donald Ray Brown
  • Detergent composition containing optimally sized bleach activator particles
    Patent number: 5891838
    Abstract: A bleach-containing detergent composition which contains a peroxygen bleaching compound and a bleach activator is disclosed. The bleach activator is in the form of particles having a mean particle diameter of 200 microns to 2000 microns. Also disclosed are bleach activator particles in the form of substantially cylindrically-shaped extrudates having a mean extrudate length of from about 500 microns to about 3500 microns and a mean extrudate diameter of from about 450 microns to about 850 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Adrian John Waynforth Angell, Joseph Adam Pauley, III, Steven Matthew Gabriel, Donald Ray Brown, Michael Eugene Burns
  • Detergent composition containing cylindrically-shaped bleach activator extrudates
    Patent number: 5795854
    Abstract: A bleach-containing detergent composition which contains a peroxygen bleaching compound and a bleach activator is disclosed. The bleach activator is in the form of substantially cylindrically-shaped extrudates having a mean extrudate length of from about 500 microns to about 3500 microns and a mean extrudate diameter of from about 450 microns to about 850 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Adrian John Waynforth Angell, Joseph Adam Pauley, III, Steven Matthew Gabriel, Donald Ray Brown
  • Method for using solid particulate fabric softener in automatic dosing dispenser
    Patent number: 5792219
    Abstract: A method of softening fabrics where the consumer adds an effective amount of a particulate fabric softening composition comprising fabric softener agent to an automatic dosing dispenser with water, seals the dispenser, and places the automatic dosing dispenser into a washing machine at the beginning of the wash process. The mechanical agitation and/or heat of the wash cycle aids in forming a finely divided emulsion/dispersion of fabric softener agent which is then released from the dispenser during the rinse cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frederick Anthony Hartman, John Robert Rusche, Lucille Florence Taylor, Donald Ray Brown