Patents by Inventor Gayle Marie Frankenbach

Gayle Marie Frankenbach 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: 20100056419
    Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to stable color maintenance and/or rejuvenation compositions comprising at least one cationic polymer and anionic surfactant, and methods for providing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Brian W. Everingham, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Beth Ann Schubert, Mark Robert Sivik, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Gregory Thomas Waning
  • Publication number: 20090249562
    Abstract: Rejuvenation compositions including a reactive dye are disclosed for the one-shot rejuvenation of the color for dark-colored textile fabrics and garments formed therefrom. The rejuvenation compositions return faded black or dark colored garments to a like-new look. Methods of rejuvenating the faded color of garments by using the dye compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Allison Lynn Gerdes, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Gregory T. Waning, Ramanan Venkata Ganapathysundaram, Michael Timothy Creedon
  • Patent number: 7569529
    Abstract: The use of a first fabric care composition comprising a first perfume delivery agent to treat a fabric and subsequently and independently treating the fabric using a second fabric care composition comprising a second perfume delivery agent provides a synergistic odor benefit on the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Publication number: 20090178211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, preferably well dispersed, more preferably translucent, and even more preferably clear, aqueous fabric color-restoring composition, fabric color-restoring methods, and articles of manufacture that use such fabric color-restoring composition. The fabric color-restoring composition comprises an effective amount of a silicone polymer fabric color-restoring agent, typically the minimum levels of fabric color-restoring agent included in the composition are at least about 1.75%, preferably at least about 2.0%, more preferably at least about 2.5%, even more preferably at least about 3.0% and typically maximum levels of fabric color-restoring agent are less than about 10.0%, preferably less than about 7.0%, particularly in the range of about 3.0% to about 6.0%; and optionally, but preferably, an effective amount to increase the coefficient of static friction, of a static friction-increasing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Errol Hoffman Wahl, Michele Ann Watkins, Jodi Lee Brown, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Brent Michael Heist
  • Publication number: 20090178212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, preferably well dispersed, more preferably translucent, and even more preferably clear, aqueous fabric color-restoring composition, fabric color-restoring methods, and articles of manufacture that use such fabric color-restoring composition. The fabric color-restoring composition comprises an effective amount of a silicone polymer fabric color-restoring agent, typically the minimum levels of fabric color-storing agent included in the composition are at least about 1.75%, preferably at least about 2.0%, more preferably at least about 2.5%, even more preferably at least about 3.0% and typically maximum levels of fabric color-restoring agent are less than about 10.0%, preferably less than about 7.0%, particularly in the range of about 3.0% to about 6.0%; and optionally, but preferably, an effective amount to increase the coefficient of static friction, of a static friction-increasing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Errol Hoffman Wahl, Michele Ann Watkins, Jodi Lee Brown, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Brent Michael Heist
  • Publication number: 20090069206
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a pearlescent liquid treatment composition suitable for use as a laundry or hard surface cleaning composition comprising a rheology modifier providing a pouring viscosity at 20 sec?1 of from 50 to 700 cps, a viscosity at constant low stress of 0.1 Pa which is at least 300 cps, preferably 500 cps and a pearlescent agent, said pearlescent agent having D0.99 volume particle size of less than 60 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kerry Andrew Vetter, David Scott Dunlop, David Gladney, JR., Stephen Joseph Hodson, Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Publication number: 20090038083
    Abstract: Compositions for treating fabric. The compositions of the present invention may be used to improve various properties of fabrics such as the olfactory perception and/or appearance of the fabric without requiring that the fabrics be put through an entire standard laundry process. Methods of treating the fabrics are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Roselle, Freddy Arthur Barnabas, Janet Sue Littig, Helen Frances O'Connor, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Patent number: 7465699
    Abstract: The present invention relates to stable, aqueous fabric softening compositions, fabric softening methods and articles of manufacture that use such fabric softening compositions comprising preferred polyalkyleneoxy polysiloxanes selected from the group consisting of polyethyleneoxy polysiloxane, polyethyleneoxy/polypropyleneoxy polysiloxanes, and mixtures thereof. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray containers. The present invention also relates to a method of identifying, selecting, and/or designing the preferred polyethyleneoxy polysiloxanes and/or polyethyleneoxy/polypropyleneoxy polysiloxanes that provide superior fabric softening performance in general, and especially for use in the fabric softening composition of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, Eva Schneiderman, David Thomas Stanton, John William Smith, Michael Lee Kramer, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Zaiyou Liu, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas
  • Publication number: 20080242584
    Abstract: A fabric enhancer composition comprising: (a) a cationic polymer; (b) less than about 20% silicone; and (c) a deposition aid; wherein the composition is essentially free of a coacervate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Jodi Lee Brown, Tania Edmee Berges Cabrera
  • Publication number: 20080234165
    Abstract: Liquid laundry detergent compositions comprising anionic surfactant, fabric care agent, cationic deposition aid and performance booster are disclosed. The performance booster is chosen such that it will not react with the cationic deposition aid or fabric care agent to form a coacervate and/or to precipitate from solution. Such performance boosters may compensate for reduced cleaning efficacy of anionic surfactants and/or fabric care agents which interact with cationic deposition aids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Mary Jane Combs, David Gladney, Connie Lynn Sheets, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Rafael Trujillo Rosaldo
  • Patent number: 7405187
    Abstract: Concentrated perfume compositions are useful for incorporating perfume into fabric care compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Timothy Clair Roetker, David Matthew Cast, Thomas Jackson Kirk, George Endel Deckner, Michael Jude Leblanc
  • Publication number: 20080098630
    Abstract: The present invention relates to arrays of consumer products, retail displays of arrays of consumer products and methods for displaying an array of consumer products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Thomas Jackson Kirk, Elise Tomsik Edelman
  • Patent number: 7341674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous wrinkle controlling and, optionally, odor-absorbing, composition, preferably for use on fabric. The composition preferably comprises fabric lubricant, shape retention polymer, lithium salts, and/or plasticizers for wrinkle control and, optionally, from about 0.1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin. Optionally, the composition can contain low molecular weight polyols; metallic salts to help control odor; nonionic surfactants to improve performance and formulatability, a humectant, etc. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray containers which preferably are in association with instructions for use, especially when the composition comprises only water and perfume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Toan Trinh, John William Smith, Raymond Edward Bolich, Jr., Earl David Brock, Marjorie Mossman Peffly, Helen Bernardo Tordil, Peter Marte Torgerson, Markus Wilhelm Altmann, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Robert Mermelstein, Christian Leo Marie Vermote, Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Anthony James Burns, William Tucker Campbell, Alen David Streutker, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Publication number: 20070281874
    Abstract: Concentrated perfume compositions are useful for incorporating perfume into fabric care compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Timothy Clair Roetker, David Matthew Cast, Thomas Jackson Kirk, George Endel Deckner, Michael Jude Leblanc
  • Patent number: 7282116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for softening an absorbent tissue. The composition includes an effective amount of a softening active ingredient; a vehicle in which the softening active ingredient is dispersed; an electrolyte dissolved in the vehicle; and a bilayer disrupter. The electrolyte and the bilayer disrupter cooperate to cause the viscosity of the composition to be less than the viscosity of a dispersion of the softening active ingredient in the vehicle alone. Preferably, the softening active ingredient is a quaternary ammonium compound with the formula: (R1)4?m—N+—[(CH2)n—Y—R3]mX? the vehicle is water, the electrolyte is calcium chloride, and the bilayer disrupter is a nonionic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Amy Jo Karl, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Publication number: 20070027059
    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: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, Alice Marie Ward, Yonas Gizaw, Donald Ray Brown, Anna Liza Tolentino, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Patent number: 7135451
    Abstract: Fabric care compositions comprise cationic starch and fabric softening active, wherein the composition comprises a viscosity of less than about 2000 centipoise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Alice Marie Ward, Yonas Gizaw, Donald Ray Brown, Anna Liza Tolentino, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Patent number: 7115173
    Abstract: An article comprising a polyvinyl alcohol film encapsulating a fabric care composition is useful for conditioning laundry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Debra Sue Caswell, Nabil Yaqub Sakkab, Allison Jane Danneels, Karel Pierre Marie Engels, Ruth Anne Murphy, Toan Trinh, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Laure Waegemans, Dominique Valeer Maria Lecluyse, Didier Gustaaf Jeanne Perot, Kurt Louis Ignoul, Tom Danny Karl Goetry, Steven Louis Diersing, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Patent number: 7108725
    Abstract: An article comprising a polyvinyl alcohol film encapsulating a fabric care composition is useful for conditioning laundry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Debra Sue Caswell, Nabil Yaqub Sakkab, Allison Jane Danneels, Karel Pierre Marie Engels, Ruth Anne Murphy, Toan Trinh, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Laure Waegemans, Dominique Valeer Maria Lecluyse, Didier Gustaaf Jeanne Perot, Kurt Louis Ignoul, Tom Danny Karl Goetry, Steven Louis Diersing, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
  • Patent number: 7037887
    Abstract: Clear, or translucent fabric softener compositions comprise fabric softener compound, principal solvent system, and high electrolyte levels. The high electrolyte level allows for a broader range of principal solvents to be used and/or reduces the incidence of increased viscosity when low levels of principal solvent are used. Phase stabilizers which are primarily ethoxylated hydrophobic materials can be used to reduce the amount of principal solvent that is needed and/or to stabilize the compositions in the presence of the highest levels of electrolyte. Specific phase stabilizers provide additional benefits including improved softening. Specific electrolytes provide improved results. Addition of primary solvents and/or phase stabilizers to the softener compounds can improve the viscosity/handling of the compounds and the ability to create the finished compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Rebecca Gayle Baker, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere, Ryan Matthew Heiden, Charles Albert Hensley, Brent Alan Kolb, Ruth Anne Murphy, Ronald Edward Pegoli, Toan Trinh, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Michael Rene Weaver, Dean Larry DuVal, John Henry Shaw, Jr., Masae Nogami, Ronghui Wu