Patents by Inventor James Merrington

James Merrington 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: 20230190611
    Abstract: A personal care composition comprising a surfactant-insoluble piroctone complex and a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen GOLDING, James MERRINGTON, Ian Geoffrey WOOD, Wei ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220331227
    Abstract: A core shell microcapsule having a liquid core and an outer shell, in which the liquid core comprises solvent and a piroctone compound and the shell comprises polyurea comprising amino sulphonic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher FIDGE, Stephen GOLDING, Stefan Antonius Franciscus BON, Samuel Richard WILSON-WHITFORD, James MERRINGTON
  • Publication number: 20220323922
    Abstract: A core shell microcapsule having a liquid core and an outer shell, in which the liquid core comprises solvent and a piroctone compound and the shell comprises polyurea formed from monomeric units of aliphatic isocyanates and amines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher FIDGE, Stephen GOLDING, Stefan Antonius Franciscus BON, Samuel Richard WILSON-WHITFORD, James MERRINGTON
  • Publication number: 20220257477
    Abstract: A composition comprising: (i) an antidandruff agent; (ii) a wax or a wax-like substance in which said antidandruff agent is soluble or dispersible, where melting point of said wax and said substance is 30° C. to 105° C. and where said substance is not a UV absorbing sunscreen; and, (iii) a cationic polymer having weight average molecular weight of 103 Da to 107 Da, where said composition is in the form of particles of particle size 0.1 to 1000 ?m and where said wax-like substance is a C13 to 35 fatty alcohol; where said wax is at least one of beeswax, Chinese wax, lanolin, shellac wax, spermaceti, bayberry wax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, castor wax, esparto wax, Japan wax, ouricury wax, rice bran wax, soy wax, tallow tree wax, ceresin wax, montan wax, ozocerite or peat wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: James MERRINGTON, Xiaoyun PAN, Xuezhi TANG, Ian Geoffrey WOOD
  • Patent number: 10934504
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising: i) at least 5 wt % amphiphilic material, preferably selected from the group consisting of detersive surfactants and quaternary ammonium compounds, ii) from 0.1 to 5 wt % perfume, iii) 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Peter Cropper, Craig Warren Jones, Hailey Kelso, James Merrington
  • Publication number: 20200056125
    Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising: i) at least 5 wt % amphiphilic material, preferably selected from the group consisting of detersive surfactants and quaternary ammonium compounds, ii) from 0.1 to 5 wt % perfume, iii) 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Martin Peter CROPPER, Craig Warren JONES, Hailey KELSO, James MERRINGTON
  • Publication number: 20190330571
    Abstract: A swellable silica microparticle with a nonionic polysaccharide deposition aid attached to its outer surface. Also a composition containing from 0.01 to 6 wt % of the swellable silica microparticles and a benefit agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Irene Acouavie AMOUSSOU, Craig Warren JONES, James MERRINGTON, Jane Elizabeth MUNRO-BROWN
  • Publication number: 20190290552
    Abstract: A composition for application to skin comprising: (i) at least 40 wt % ethanol, (ii) from 0.1 to 6 wt % perfume comprising non-polar perfume materials, (iii) optionally, at least 0.2 wt % surfactant, (iv) 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Martin Peter CROPPER, Craig Warren JONES, Hailey KELSO, James MERRINGTON
  • Patent number: 10034818
    Abstract: The invention provides a use of a particle to absorb and retain odiferous compounds, wherein the particle comprises: —(a) a solid core comprising a first hydrophobic polymer, and (b) a shell comprising a second hydrophobic polymer wherein the Tg of the first hydrophobic polymer is lower than the Tg of the second hydrophobic polymer; wherein the particles have a mean particle size of less than 1 micron, preferably from 0.1 to 0.3 microns, and wherein the odiferous compound is a malodor compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Peter Cropper, Craig Warren Jones, Adam John Limer, James Merrington, Katherine Mary Thompson, Jeremy Nicholas Winter
  • Patent number: 9993401
    Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle having an average diameter of less than 50 micron comprising; at least one shell formed by a step-growth polymerization reaction, preferably involving an isocyanate monomer, more preferably a urethane and/or a urea. interior said shell, at least one region formed by chain-growth polymerization reaction (preferably a free-radical polymerization) which does not involve an isocyanate, c) optionally, a benefit agent interior to said shell, and/or a deposition aid exterior to said shell. The invention further provides a process for the preparation of such particles wherein the shell is formed prior to the chain-growth polymerization of the at least one region interior of the shell, preferably be forming the shell at a temperature at which the chain-growth reaction is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Anthony Barnett, Craig Warren Jones, Adam John Limer, James Merrington, Jeremy Nicholas Winter
  • Publication number: 20170181935
    Abstract: The invention provides a use of a particle to absorb and retain odiferous compounds, wherein the particle comprises: —(a) a solid core comprising a first hydrophobic polymer, and (b) a shell comprising a second hydrophobic polymer wherein the Tg of the first hydrophobic polymer is lower than the Tg of the second hydrophobic polymer; wherein the particles have a mean particle size of less than 1 micron, preferably from 0.1 to 0.3 microns, and wherein the odiferous compound is a malodour compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Martin Peter CROPPER, Craig Warren JONES, Adam John LIMER, James MERRINGTON, Katherine Mary THOMPSON, Jeremy Nicholas WINTER
  • Patent number: 9150822
    Abstract: An aqueous fabric conditioner composition comprising (a) from 2 to 9 wt % of a fabric softening active, by weight of the total composition, wherein the fabric softening active is an ester-linked quaternary ammonium compound having fatty acid chains comprising from 20 to 35 wt % of saturated C18 chains and from 20 to 35 wt % of monounsaturated C18 chains, by weight of total fatty acid chains; and (b) from 0.01 to 0.5 wt %, by weight of the total composition, of a floc prevention agent, which is a non-ionic alkoxylated material having an HLB value of from 8 to 18, wherein the aqueous fabric conditioner composition has a viscosity of greater than 50 cps, preferably from 55 to 200 cps as measured on a cup and bob viscometer; the viscosity being continuously measured under shear at 106 s?1 for 60 seconds, at 25° C. and wherein the composition leads to little or no floc formation upon addition to water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Clowes, Michel Gilbert Jose Delroisse, Denis James Gregory, Robert Allan Hunter, Karl Gareth Kean Jones, James Merrington, Mark Nicholas Newman, Janette Perry, Shaun Charles Walsh, Jenny Wiggans
  • Publication number: 20140378369
    Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle having an average diameter of less than 50 micron comprising; at least one shell formed by a step-growth polymerisation reaction, preferably involving an isocyanate monomer, more preferably a urethane and/or a urea, interior said shell, at least one region formed by chain-growth polymerisation reaction (preferably a free-radical polymerisation) which does not involve an isocyanate, c) optionally, a benefit agent interior to said shell, and/or a deposition aid exterior to said shell. The invention further provides a process for the preparation of such particles wherein the shell is formed prior to the chain-growth polymerisation of the at least one region interior of the shell, preferably be forming the shell at a temperature at which the chain-growth reaction is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., D/B/A UNILEVER
    Inventors: Stuart Anthony Barnett, Criag Warren Jones, Adam John Limer, James Merrington, Jeremy Nicholas Winter
  • Publication number: 20140057827
    Abstract: An aqueous fabric conditioner composition comprising (a) from 2 to 9 wt % of a fabric softening active, by weight of the total composition, wherein the fabric softening active is an ester-linked quaternary ammonium compound having fatty acid chains comprising from 20 to 35 wt % of saturated C18 chains and from 20 to 35 wt % of monounsaturated C18 chains, by weight of total fatty acid chains; and (b) from 0.01 to 0.5 wt %, by weight of the total composition, of a floc prevention agent, which is a non-ionic alkoxylated material having an HLB value of from 8 to 18, wherein the aqueous fabric conditioner composition has a viscosity of greater than 50 cps, preferably from 55 to 200 cps as measured on a cup and bob viscometer; the viscosity being continuously measured under shear at 106 s?1 for 60 seconds, at 25° C. and wherein the composition leads to little or no floc formation upon addition to water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Clowes, Michel Gilbert Jose Delroisse, Denis James Gregory, Robert Allan Hunter, Karl Gareth Kean Jones, James Merrington, Mark Nicholas Newman, Janette Perry, Shaun Charles Walsh, Jenny Wiggans
  • Publication number: 20130122070
    Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle having an average diameter of less than 50 micron comprising; at least one shell formed by a step-growth polymerisation reaction, preferably involving an isocyanate monomer, more preferably a urethane and/or a urea, interior said shell, at least one region formed by chain-growth polymerisation reaction (preferably a free-radical polymerisation) which does not involve an isocyanate, c) optionally, a benefit agent interior to said shell, and/or a deposition aid exterior to said shell. The invention further provides a process for the preparation of such particles wherein the shell is formed prior to the chain-growth polymerisation of the at least one region interior of the shell, preferably be forming the shell at a temperature at which the chain-growth reaction is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Stuart Anthony Barnett, Craig Warren Jones, Adam John Limer, James Merrington, Jeremy Nicholas Winter