Patents by Inventor Isabelle Capron

Isabelle Capron 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: 9789456
    Abstract: The composition, advantageously an emulsion or a foam, includes an internal phase dispersed in a hydrophilic continuous phase, the percentage of the internal phase being higher than 50%. The emulsion composition contains nanocrystals of a polysaccharide other than cellulose, advantageously chitin, that are located at the interface between the internal phase and the hydrophilic continuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE—INRA
    Inventors: Isabelle Capron, Herve Bizot, Bernard Cathala
  • Patent number: 9260551
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition in the form of an emulsion, advantageously a Pickering emulsion, comprising a hydrophobic phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, which composition contains emulsifying particles capable of stabilizing said emulsion, at least some of said particles consisting of cellulose nanocrystals having an elongated shape, which have the following features: a length between 25 nm to 1 ?m, and a width between 5 to 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
    Inventors: Bernard Cathala, Isabelle Capron, Hervé Bizot, Alain Buleon, Irina Kalashnikova
  • Publication number: 20150273420
    Abstract: The composition, advantageously an emulsion or a foam, includes an internal phase dispersed in a hydrophilic continuous phase, the percentage of the internal phase being higher than 50%. The emulsion composition contains nanocrystals of a polysaccharide other than cellulose, advantageously chitin, that are located at the interface between the internal phase and the hydrophilic continuous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE-INRA
    Inventors: Isabelle Capron, Herve Bizot, Bernard Cathala
  • Publication number: 20140073706
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an emulsion including a hydrophobic internal phase dispersed in a hydrophilic continuous phase, of the medium internal phase (MIPE) or high internal phase (HIPE) type, which has an internal phase percentage higher than 55%, comprising the following steps: a) producing an oil-in-water emulsion composition that has a hydrophobic phase/hydrophilic phase volume ratio of at least 5/95, including a step for incorporating cellulose nanocrystals into said hydrophilic phase, and a step for forming the emulsion by dispersing said hydrophobic phase in said hydrophilic phase, and b) producing an emulsion that has an internal phase percentage higher than 55%, including: b.1) a step for adding a volume of hydrophobic phase to the emulsion composition produced in Step a), and stirring the mixture thereby produced, and/or b.2) a step for concentrating the emulsion composition produced in Step a), by removing at least part of said hydrophilic phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Isabelle Capron, Bernard Cathala, Hervé Bizot
  • Publication number: 20130122071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition in the form of an emulsion, advantageously a Pickering emulsion, comprising a hydrophobic phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, which composition contains emulsifying particles capable of stabilizing said emulsion, at least some of said particles consisting of cellulose nanocrystals having an elongated shape, which have the following features: a length between 25 nm to 1 ?m, and a width between 5 to 30 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Bernard Cathala, Isabelle Capron, Hervé Bizot, Alain Buleon, Irina Kalashnikova
  • Patent number: 6034046
    Abstract: An improvement is described in all purpose liquid bathroom cleaning compositions which are especially effective in the prevention of soap scum buildup containing a zwitterionic surfactant, a glycol ether cosurfactant, an agent for the prevention of soap scum buildup and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Colgate Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Claude Blanvalet, Isabelle Capron