Patents by Inventor Edward Dewey Smith

Edward Dewey Smith 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).

  • Publication number: 20230329993
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition includes a surfactant system, where the surfactant system contains from about 0.1% to about 5% of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant and from about 0.5% to about 40% of a co-surfactant. The composition is free of alkyl sulfate or alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants. The composition also contains from about 0.05% to about 5% of a of a non-ionic surfactant comprising a fatty alkanolamide, from about 0.01% to about 2.0% of a hydrophobically modified ethoxylated methyl glucoside, and from about 0.01% to about 1.0% of a preservative. The pH of the composition is from about 5.5 to about 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Lesheng Zhang, Ye Li, Ruiqi Lu, Karl Shiqing Wei, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11737966
    Abstract: Rinse-off cleansing compositions can include surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, wherein the rinse-off cleansing composition has a G? of at least about 25 Pa and/or is not a ringing gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Patent number: 11737965
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing fragrance on skin upon initial application of a rinse-off cleansing composition can include combining surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, to form the composition, wherein the composition has a total GCMS count higher than that of a control where the solvent is replaced with water when the total GCMS count is measured in accordance with the PSHAM method immediately following the initial application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Patent number: 11638683
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition includes a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes from 0.1% to 5% of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.5% to 40% of a co-surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.05% to 5% of a natural polysaccharide or a chemically modified natural polysaccharide by weight of the composition; wherein the personal cleansing composition includes a first and second phase, wherein the first phase is an isotropic and micellar surfactant phase; wherein the second phase is a polymer liquid crystalline phase; wherein the composition is free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants; wherein the composition exhibits a yield stress value ?y from 0.005 Pa to 3 Pa; and wherein the composition exhibits a flow viscosity from 3 Pa·s to 100 Pa·s at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1.5 s?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jessa Leigh Meyers, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Publication number: 20230119920
    Abstract: A method of producing a reduced glycol fatty alcohol ethoxylate material may include removing at least a portion of glycol in the fatty alcohol ethoxylate material. A method of producing a reduced glycol sulfate ethoxylated sulfate surfactant may include, removing at least a portion of glycol in an ethoxylated fatty alcohol raw material before the ethoxylated fatty alcohol raw material is sulfated to produce the reduced glycol sulfate ethoxylated sulfate surfactant. A surfactant including an ethoxylated fatty alcohol with 100 ppm or less by weight of free glycol. A surfactant including a sulfated ethoxylated alcohol with 100 ppm or less by weight of diethylene glycol monosulfate sodium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: EDWARD DEWEY SMITH, III
  • Publication number: 20230024593
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition includes a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes from 0.1% to 5% of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.5% to 40% of a co-surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.05% to 5% of a natural polysaccharide or a chemically modified natural polysaccharide by weight of the composition; wherein the personal cleansing composition includes a first and second phase, wherein the first phase is an isotropic and micellar surfactant phase; wherein the second phase is a polymer liquid crystalline phase; wherein the composition is free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants; wherein the composition exhibits a yield stress value ?y from 0.005 Pa to 3 Pa; and wherein the composition exhibits a flow viscosity from 3 Pa·s to 100 Pa·s at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1.5 s?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jessa Leigh MEYERS, Edward Dewey SMITH, III
  • Publication number: 20220401332
    Abstract: Described herein, personal cleansing compositions, methods and uses. Personal cleansing compositions can include a surfactant, a perfume, a hydric solvent, and water, wherein the composition is structured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: OLUBOLAJI AKINTELURE, EDWARD DEWEY SMITH, III
  • Publication number: 20220401331
    Abstract: Described herein, personal cleansing compositions, methods and uses. Personal cleansing compositions can include a surfactant, a perfume, a hydric solvent, and water, wherein the composition is structured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: OLUBOLAJI AKINTELURE, EDWARD DEWEY SMITH, III
  • Patent number: 11484488
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition includes a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes from 0.1% to 5% of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.5% to 40% of a co-surfactant by weight of the composition; from 0.05% to 5% of a natural polysaccharide or a chemically modified natural polysaccharide by weight of the composition; wherein the personal cleansing composition includes a first and second phase, wherein the first phase is an isotropic and micellar surfactant phase; wherein the second phase is a polymer liquid crystalline phase; wherein the composition is free of alkyl sulfate and alkyl ether sulfate type of surfactants; wherein the composition exhibits a yield stress value ?y from 0.005 Pa to 3 Pa; and wherein the composition exhibits a flow viscosity from 3 Pa·s to 100 Pa·s at 25° C. at a shear rate of 1.5 s?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jessa Leigh Meyers, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11311470
    Abstract: Rinse-off cleansing compositions can include surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, wherein the rinse-off cleansing composition has a G? of at least about 25 Pa and/or is not a ringing gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Patent number: 11202744
    Abstract: A method of formulating a personal cleansing product that will adhere to skin, includes: combining a cleansing composition with from about 18% to about 70%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant; wherein the composition has a low shear viscosity of 100 Pa*s or more and a high shear viscosity 5 Pa*s or less; and a package with an orifice, wherein the package has a dispensing velocity of 50 cm/s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelsey Marie Smyth, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Nancy Lorincz Leppla
  • Patent number: 11202746
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing fragrance of a rinse-off cleansing composition prior to use can include combining surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, to form the composition, wherein the composition is not a ringing gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Patent number: 11185486
    Abstract: Rinse-off cleansing compositions can include surfactant, perfume, solvent, thickener, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kelsey Marie Smyth, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11179301
    Abstract: A skin cleansing composition includes surfactant, glycerin, perfume, and water, where at least a portion of the composition is in a lamellar phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventor: Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11160741
    Abstract: Described herein, a personal care composition and its uses, wherein the personal care composition comprises a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system comprises: from 3% to 15% of an anionic surfactant by weight of the composition, wherein the anionic surfactant is sodium laureth(1) sulfate SLE1S, from 1% to 15% of one or more cosurfactants by weight of the composition; from 0.10% to 5.0%, from 0.20% to 2.5%, from 0.25% to 1.75%, from 0.50% to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gerald John Guskey, Shannon Dale Wagers, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11129783
    Abstract: The invention relates stable compact low viscosity hair care compositions comprising: from about 20 weight % to about 45 weight % total surfactant; from about 2 weight % to about 25 weight % branched anionic surfactant with a tail having an alkyl chain with 12 to 18 carbon atoms; from about 5% weight % to about 30 weight % linear anionic surfactant with a tail having an alkyl chain with 12 to 18 carbon atom; from about 0.1 weight % to about 8 weight % of a viscosity reducing agent; from about 40 weight % to about 80 weight % of water; wherein the concentrated shampoo has Ratio of Linear anionic surfactant to Branched anionic surfactant of about 0.3 to about 5, wherein the concentrated shampoo has a viscosity of less than 3000 cP at 26.5° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Plaza
    Inventors: Jean Jianqun Zhao, Ioannis Constantine Constantinides, Karl Shiqing Wei, Peter Herbert Koenig, Howard David Hutton, III, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Xiaoru Jenny Wang, Edward Dewey Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11090244
    Abstract: A compliant personal care composition can include i) from about 20% to about 80%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant; and ii) from about 3% to about 40%, by weight of the composition, of a water insoluble hygroscopic fiber, fine, or filament; wherein the composition has a compliance value of about 0.01 kg/mm to about 1.5 kg/mm or before a simulated use. The composition may also be at least partially surrounded by a substrate and in the form of an article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Shawn David McConaughy, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Dale Gary Kavalew
  • Publication number: 20210169763
    Abstract: Rinse-off cleansing compositions can include surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, wherein the rinse-off cleansing composition has a G? of at least about 25 Pa and/or is not a ringing gel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Publication number: 20210161787
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing fragrance on skin upon initial application of a rinse-off cleansing composition can include combining surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, to form the composition, wherein the composition has a total GCMS count higher than that of a control where the solvent is replaced with water when the total GCMS count is measured in accordance with the PSHAM method immediately following the initial application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger
  • Publication number: 20210128434
    Abstract: Rinse-off cleansing compositions can include surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, wherein the rinse-off cleansing composition has a G? of at least about 25 Pa and/or is not a ringing gel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy, Jianjun Justin Li, Marc Adam Flickinger