Patents by Inventor Heather Eileen Matheny

Heather Eileen Matheny 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).

  • Human skin sample methods and models for validating hypotheses for mechanisms driving skin pigmentation
    Patent number: 10732171
    Abstract: Human skin tissue sample methods and models for identifying and screening test agents as effective for providing skin tone benefits, methods for validating hypotheses for mechanisms driving skin pigmentation as well as methods for driving skin pigment levels in ex-vivo skin tissue. The method includes contacting a cultured human skin tissue sample with a test agent, generating a transcriptional profile from the sample, and comparing the results to a control to determine if the test agent is effective for providing a skin tone benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Deborah Ruth Finlay, Tomohiro Hakozaki, Charles Carson Bascom, Heather Eileen Matheny
  • Human Skin Sample Methods and Models for Assessing Tone-Specific Benefits of Agents
    Publication number: 20150004616
    Abstract: Human skin tissue sample methods and models for identifying and screening test agents as effective for providing skin tone benefits, methods for validating hypotheses for mechanisms driving skin pigmentation as well as methods for driving skin pigment levels in ex-vivo skin tissue. The method includes contacting a cultured human skin tissue sample with a test agent, generating a transcriptional profile from the sample, and comparing the results to a control to determine if the test agent is effective for providing a skin tone benefit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Deborah Ruth Finlay, Tomohiro Hakozaki, Charles Carson Bascom, Heather Eileen Matheny
  • HUMAN SKIN SAMPLE METHODS AND MODELS FOR VALIDATING HYPOTHESES FOR MECHANISMS DRIVING SKIN PIGMENTATION
    Publication number: 20140335532
    Abstract: Human skin tissue sample methods and models for validating hypotheses for mechanisms driving skin pigmentation as well as methods for driving skin pigment levels in ex-vivo skin tissue. The method includes providing a first cultured human skin tissue sample and testing the effectiveness of the test agent for driving skin pigmentation, and comparing the transcriptional profile generated from the treated human skin tissue sample to the transcriptional profile of a control to validate the hypothesis that the test agent drives skin pigmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Deborah Ruth Finlay, Tomohiro NMN Hakozaki, Charles Carson Bascom, Heather Eileen Matheny