Patents by Inventor John Robert Rusche

John Robert Rusche 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: 8461090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dissolvable article in the form of a porous dissolvable solid structure, comprising from about 23% to about 75% surfactant; wherein the surfactant has an average ethoxylate/alkyl ratio of from about 0.001 to about 0.45; from about 10% to about 50% water soluble polymer; and from about 1% to about 15% plasticizer; and wherein the article has a density of from about 0.05 g/cm3 to about 0.25 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., James Merle Heinrich, Kathleen Mary Kaufman, John Robert Rusche, David Johnathan Kitko
  • Publication number: 20100179083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dissolvable article in the form of a porous dissolvable solid structure, comprising from about 23% to about 75% surfactant; wherein the surfactant has an average ethoxylate/alkyl ratio of from about 0.001 to about 0.45; from about 10% to about 50% water soluble polymer; and from about 1% to about 15% plasticizer; and wherein the article has a density of from about 0.05 g/cm3 to about 0.25 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, JR., James Merle Heinrich, Kathleen Mary Kaufman, John Robert Rusche, David Johnathan Kitko
  • Patent number: 6296670
    Abstract: Rinsing dyed or white fabrics in a chelator-containing rinse bath restores color and brightness. Rinse added compositions comprising chelators such as diethylenetriaminepentaacetate or ethylenediamine disuccinate are used to restore the appearance of colored and white fabrics whose drab appearance has been caused by interactions with metal ions, especially copper and nickel. Compositions comprising the chelators in combination with fabric care auxiliaries such as fabric softeners, cellulase enzymes and chlorine scavengers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Robert Rusche, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Axel Masschelein
  • Patent number: 5830843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid, rinse added fabric softening compositions including a dispersible polyethylene and methods for their use. The fabric softeners of the present invention include a fabric softening compound or amine precursor thereof and a dispersible polyolefin. Preferably, the dispersible polyolefin is an emulsion and the polyolefin is polyethylene and, more preferably, a modified or oxidized polyethylene. A liquid carrier and optional dispersibility modifier are also included. The quaternary ammonium fabric softener is preferably cationic and biodegradable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frederick Anthony Hartman, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Axel Masschelein, John Robert Rusche, John Cort Severns, John Christopher Turner
  • Patent number: 5792219
    Abstract: A method of softening fabrics where the consumer adds an effective amount of a particulate fabric softening composition comprising fabric softener agent to an automatic dosing dispenser with water, seals the dispenser, and places the automatic dosing dispenser into a washing machine at the beginning of the wash process. The mechanical agitation and/or heat of the wash cycle aids in forming a finely divided emulsion/dispersion of fabric softener agent which is then released from the dispenser during the rinse cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frederick Anthony Hartman, John Robert Rusche, Lucille Florence Taylor, Donald Ray Brown
  • Patent number: 5686376
    Abstract: Rinsing dyed or white fabrics in a chelator-containing rinse bath restores color and brightness. Rinse added compositions comprising chelators such as diethylenetriaminepentaacetate or ethylenediamine disuccinate are used to restore the appearance of colored and white fabrics whose drab appearance has been caused by interactions with metal ions, especially copper and nickel. Compositions comprising the chelators in combination with fabric care auxiliaries such as fabric softeners, cellulase enzymes and chlorine scavengers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Robert Rusche, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Axel Masschelein