Patents by Inventor Johan Smets

Johan Smets 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: 20180265827
    Abstract: A consumer product composition comprises a consumer product adjunct ingredient, a microcapsule, and deposition polymer disposed on an outer surface of the microcapsule. The deposition polymer has a Water Uptake Value (WUV) of at least about 2 grams per gram, as determined according to the WATER UPTAKE VALUE TEST METHOD. The microcapsule comprises a shell material encapsulating a core material, wherein the shell material comprises a polyacrylate and the core material comprises a benefit agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oh, Dorothy A Hall, Pierre Verstraete, Olivier Fasbender, Johan Smets
  • Publication number: 20180180391
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition having improved or enhanced fidelity and/or longevity of the fragrance profile, comprising fragrance materials in a diamond construction and at least one substantially non-odorous fragrance modulator. The invention also relates to methods of use of the compositions for perfuming suitable substrates, including hard surfaces and body parts, particularly skin and hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Lynette Anne Makins Holland, Christelle Marie Sandrine Bonnet, Fabienne Pastor, Jose Maria Velazquez Mendoza, Jonathan Richard Stonehouse, William Eoghan Staite, David Thomas Stanton, Oreste Todini, Stephen Robert Schofield, Sarah Kyakyo Kanyunyuzi Nyakana, Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Isabelle Guimet
  • Patent number: 9993793
    Abstract: The present application relates to encapsulated benefit agents, compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents and processes for making and using compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents. Such encapsulated benefit agents eliminate or minimize one or more of the drawbacks of current encapsulated benefit agents and thus provide formulators with additional perfume delivery opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jiten Odhavji Dihora, Johan Smets, Todd Arlin Schwantes
  • Patent number: 9994801
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume compositions, delivery systems comprising such perfumes products comprising such perfumes and/or delivery systems, and processes for making and using same. Such perfumes and delivery systems provide improved perfume performance under high soil conditions and in cold water washing and a shell that at least partially surrounds said core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Jonathan Richard Clare, Javier Medina, Philip Andrew Cunningham, Johan Smets, Laura Orlandini
  • Patent number: 9994793
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials and compositions, including the delivery systems, disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options as such perfume raw materials can provide variations on character and such compositions can provide desired odor profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, An Pintens, Koen Van Aken, Freek Annie Camiel Vrielynck
  • Publication number: 20180148673
    Abstract: A detergent composition and processes for making and using same. A detergent composition that includes cellulose fibers to improve the deposition and/or retention of encapsulated benefit agent onto fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez-Prieto, Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn, Johan Smets
  • Patent number: 9969961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions comprising said particles, and processes for making and using the aforementioned particles and compositions. When employed in compositions, for example, cleaning or fabric care compositions, such particles increase the efficiency of benefit agent delivery, there by allowing reduced amounts of benefit agents to be employed. In addition to allowing the amount of benefit agent to be reduced, such particles allow a broad range of benefit agents to be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Jiten Odhavji Dihora, An Pintens, Sandra Jacqueline Guinebretiere, Adam Keith Druckrey, Peggy Dorothy Sands, Nianxi Yan
  • Patent number: 9896650
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume compositions, delivery systems comprising such perfumes products comprising such perfumes and/or delivery systems, and processes for making and using same. Such perfumes and delivery systems provide improved perfume performance under high soil conditions and in cold water washing and a shell that at least partially surrounds said core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rafael Trujillo, Johan Smets, An Pintens, Amanda Kiser Jukes, Christine Marie Cahen
  • Patent number: 9890351
    Abstract: The present application relates to encapsulates, compositions, products comprising such encapsulates, and processes for making and using such encapsulates. Such encapsulates comprise a core comprising a perfume and a shell that encapsulates said core, such encapsulates may optionally comprise a parametric balancing agent, such shell comprising one or more azobenzene moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Susana Fernandez Prieto, Steven Daryl Smith, Todd Laurence Underiner, John August Wos, Wolfgang Edgar Huhn, Heath A. Frederick, Marta Giamberini, Bartosz Tylkowski
  • Patent number: 9822327
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials and compositions, including the delivery systems, disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options as such perfume raw materials can provide variations on character and such compositions can provide desired odor profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Johan Smets, An Pintens, Koen Van Aken, Freek Annie Camiel Vrielynck
  • Patent number: 9644174
    Abstract: The present application relates to encapsulated, preformed peracids and products comprising such encapsulates, as well as processes for making and using such encapsulates and products comprising such encapsulates. Such products deliver bleaching that results in superior whiteness and stain removal without the stability issues that are normally associated with certain bleaching systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Juan Felipe Miravet Celades, Beatriu Escuder Gil, Vincent Josep Nebot-Carda, Johan Smets, Susana Fernandez Prieto
  • Patent number: 9580673
    Abstract: A liquid composition having a microcapsule, the microcapsule having an aldehyde-containing resin, and one or more formaldehyde scavenger which reacts with formaldehyde to achieve more than about 60% reaction completeness in about 15 minutes time at pH 8 and at about 21° C. A liquid composition having a microcapsule, the microcapsule having an aldehyde-containing resin, one or more sulfur-based formaldehyde scavenger and optionally a non-sulfur-based formaldehyde scavenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Tim Roger Michel Van Pachtenbeke, Johan Smets
  • Patent number: 9441185
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising perfume delivery systems and or perfume raw materials, as well as processes for making and using such perfume delivery systems and consumer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Amorelli, Michael G. Monteleone, Adam P. Closson, Anthony T. Levorse, Jr., Nicole O'Keefe, Gary J. Mertz, Feng Geng, Tingwei Cai, Edward Mark Arruda, Anubhav P. S. Narula, Robert P. Belko, James Anthony Lasome, Heedong Yun, Richard A. Weiss, Takashi Sasaki, Johan Smets, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, An Pintens, Isabelle Guimet
  • Patent number: 9334465
    Abstract: The structuring ability of fluid compositions comprising an amido-gellant or HEUR polymeric structurant can be improved with the addition of a cosmotrope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Vincent Josep Nebot Carda, Beatriu Escuder Gil, Juan Felipe Miravet-Celades
  • Patent number: 9309487
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials and compositions, including the delivery systems, disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options as such perfume raw materials can provide variations on character and such compositions can provide desired odor profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Johan Smets, An Pintens, Koen Van Aken, Freek Annie Camiel Vrielynck
  • Patent number: 9303232
    Abstract: The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials and compositions, including the delivery systems, disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options as such perfume raw materials can provide variations on character and such compositions can provide desired odor profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, An Pintens, Johan Smets, Freek Annie Camiel Vrielynck, Koen Van Aken
  • Patent number: 9271912
    Abstract: A personal care composition is disclosed comprising a pH tuneable gellant. The pH tuneable gellant has a formula of: wherein R1 and R2 are aminofunctional end-groups; L1 is a backbone moiety having molecular weight from 14 to 500 g/mol; and at least one of L1, R1 or R2 comprises a pH-sensitive group; wherein R5 is an aminofunctional moiety; L2 is a backbone moiety having molecular weight from 14 to 500 g/mol; and at least one of L2 or R5 comprises a pH-sensitive group; and mixtures of [I] and [II]. The personal care composition may take a variety of forms such as a leave-on composition or an emulsion or may comprise one or more actives or agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez Prieto, Johan Smets, Beatriu Escuder Gil, Juan Felipe Miravet Celades, Vicent Josep Nebot Carda, Paul Robert Tanner
  • Patent number: 9221028
    Abstract: The present application relates to encapsulated benefit agents, compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents and processes for making and using compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents. Such encapsulated benefit agents eliminate or minimize one or more of the drawbacks of current encapsulated benefit agents and thus provide formulators with additional perfume delivery opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jiten Odhavji Dihora, Johan Smets, Todd Arlin Schwantes
  • Patent number: 9186642
    Abstract: The present application relates to encapsulated benefit agents, compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents and processes for making and using compositions comprising such encapsulated benefit agents. Such encapsulated benefit agents eliminate or minimize one or more of the drawbacks of current encapsulated benefit agents and thus provide formulators with additional perfume delivery opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jiten Odhavji Dihora, Johan Smets, Todd Arlin Schwantes
  • Patent number: RE45538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions comprising said particles, and processes for making and using the aforementioned particles and compositions. When employed in compositions, for example, compositions for cleaning, fabric care, or coating onto various substrates, textiles or surfaces, such particles increase the efficiency of benefit agent delivery, thereby allowing reduced amounts of benefit agents to be employed. In addition to allowing the amount of benefit agent to be reduced, such particles allow a broad range of benefit agents to be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Peggy Dorothy Sands, Sandra Jacqueline Guinebretiere, An Pintens, Jiten Odhavji Dihora