Patents by Inventor Gregg Thomas Weaver

Gregg Thomas Weaver 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: 8266956
    Abstract: A method for demonstrating the comparative break-though strengths of at least two tissue products is disclosed. The steps include: a) providing a break-through test apparatus b) providing the tissue products; c) observing a first condition of each tissue product; d) disposing a first of the tissue products between a lower platen and an upper platen in a face-to-face-to-face relationship between coextensive apertures disposed within the lower and upper platen; e) providing a simulated mucous composition; f) directing a first portion of the simulated mucous composition toward the first tissue product; g) observing a second condition of the first tissue product; h) disposing a second tissue product between the coextensive apertures; i) directing a second portion of the simulated mucous composition toward the second tissue product; j) observing a second condition of the second tissue product; and, k) comparing the second condition of the first tissue product and the second condition of the second tissue product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Michael Scott Prodoehl, LaTisha Evette Salaam, Joseph Jay Bullock, Elizabeth Ann Kreider
  • Patent number: 8192205
    Abstract: Demonstrative methods for sanitary tissue products, for example toilet tissue products, and more particularly, methods for demonstrating absorbency-based consumption differences between two or more toilet tissue products, and toilet tissue product packages and marketing articles that evidence absorbency-based consumption differences between toilet tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: 8127601
    Abstract: A method for testing the break-through strength of a tissue product is disclosed. The method entails the steps of: a) observing a first condition of the tissue product; b) disposing the tissue product between a lower platen and an upper platen; c) disposing at least a portion of the tissue product within an aperture disposed within the lower platen and an aperture disposed within the upper platen; d) providing a simulated mucous composition; e) directing the simulated mucous composition toward the tissue product disposed within the aperture disposed within the lower platen and the aperture disposed within the upper platen; f) after step d), observing a second condition of the tissue product; and, g) comparing the first and the second conditions of the tissue product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell Wiwi, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Michael Scott Prodoehl, LaTisha Evette Salaam
  • Patent number: 8034215
    Abstract: Patterned fibrous structures, more particularly to fibrous structures that comprise a pattern that conveys to a user a characteristic of the fibrous structure and/or single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising such a patterned fibrous structure and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Publication number: 20100313649
    Abstract: A method for testing the break-through strength of a tissue product is disclosed. The method entails the steps of: a) observing a first condition of the tissue product; b) disposing the tissue product between a lower platen and an upper platen; c) disposing at least a portion of the tissue product within an aperture disposed within the lower platen and an aperture disposed within the upper platen; d) providing a simulated mucous composition; e) directing the simulated mucous composition toward the tissue product disposed within the aperture disposed within the lower platen and the aperture disposed within the upper platen; f) after step d), observing a second condition of the tissue product; and, g) comparing the first and the second conditions of the tissue product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell Wiwi, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Michael Scott Prodoehl, LaTisha Evette Salaam
  • Publication number: 20100313648
    Abstract: A method for demonstrating the comparative break-though strengths of at least two tissue products is disclosed. The steps include: a) providing a break-through test apparatus b) providing the tissue products; c) observing a first condition of each tissue product; d) disposing a first of the tissue products between a lower platen and an upper platen in a face-to-face-to-face relationship between coextensive apertures disposed within the lower and upper platen; e) providing a simulated mucous composition; f) directing a first portion of the simulated mucous composition toward the first tissue product; g) observing a second condition of the first tissue product; h) disposing a second tissue product between the coextensive apertures; i) directing a second portion of the simulated mucous composition toward the second tissue product; j) observing a second condition of the second tissue product; and, k) comparing the second condition of the first tissue product and the second condition of the second tissue product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Michael Scott Prodoehl, LaTisha Evette Salaam, Joseph Jay Bullock, Elizabeth Ann Kreider
  • Publication number: 20100178646
    Abstract: Demonstrative methods for sanitary tissue products, for example toilet tissue products, and more particularly, methods for demonstrating absorbency-based consumption differences between two or more toilet tissue products, and toilet tissue product packages and marketing articles that evidence absorbency-based consumption differences between toilet tissue products are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Dean Larry DuVAL
  • Publication number: 20090311661
    Abstract: Demonstrative methods for sanitary tissue products, for example toilet tissue products, and more particularly, methods for demonstrating wet pilling differences between two or more toilet tissue products and toilet tissue product packages and marketing articles that evidence wet pilling differences between toilet tissue products are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Gregg Thomas Weaver, Mark Casey Fox
  • Patent number: D508613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver
  • Patent number: D521250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Patent number: D523644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver
  • Patent number: D535107
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver
  • Patent number: D536532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Patent number: D563678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter + Gamble Company
    Inventors: Throsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver
  • Patent number: D564237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter + Gamble Company
    Inventors: Throsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
  • Patent number: D564238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Throsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan