Patents by Inventor Kakumanu Pramod

Kakumanu Pramod 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).

  • Rinse-added fabric conditioning composition based on specific starch and method using same
    Patent number: 6486119
    Abstract: A rinse-added fabric conditioning composition comprising a starch having a gelatinization temperature of less than 150 degrees C. and a method of imparting crispness properties to fabrics treated with same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Bruce Huntington, Kakumanu Pramod, Royal D. Collins
  • Alkoxylated cationic detergency ingredients
    Patent number: 6136769
    Abstract: Alkoxylated cationic surfactants, and mixtures thereof, are used in detergent compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kaori Asano, Stuart Clive Askew, Hajime Baba, Andre Cesar Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Laura Cron, Ian Martin Dodd, Peter Robert Foley, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Lynda Anne (Jones) Speed, Rinko Katsuda, Frank Andrej Kvietok, Kaori Minamikawa, Mark Hsiang-Kuen Mao, Michael Alan John Moss, Susumu Murata, Royohei Ohtani, Mitsuyo Okamoto, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kakumanu Pramod, Khizar Mohamed Kahn Sarnaik, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen, Kenneth William Willman
  • Cleaning compositions containing bleach and stability-enhanced enzymes
    Patent number: 5904161
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions, particularly automatic dishwashing detergent compositions, comprising a stability-enhanced amylase and bleach-improving materials are provided. More specifically, the invention relates to granular automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits. The automatic dishwashing compositions comprise stability-enhanced amylase enzymes and one or more bleach-improving compounds, such as organic peroxides, quaternary substituted bleach activators, quaternary substituted peracids and manganese or iron bleach catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Saroj Rai, William Michael Scheper, Lucille Florence Taylor, Gregory Stephen Caravajal, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Kakumanu Pramod
  • Liquid laundry detergent compositions containing lipolytic enzyme and specially selected soaps
    Patent number: 5536436
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition containing not more than 50% water by weight of the total liquid detergent composition, from about 0.0001 to about 1.0% on an active basis of a lipolytic enzyme, and further comprising a specially selected soap selected from the group consisting of specific C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 secondary carboxyl materials; specific secondary carboxyl materials wherein the carboxyl substituent is on a ring hydrocarbyl unit; and specific C.sub.10 -C.sub.24 primary or secondary carboxyl compounds and specific C.sub.10 -C.sub.24 tertiary carboxyl compounds. A pretreatment laundering process using the composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kakumanu Pramod
  • Liquid laundry detergents containing stabilized glucose/glucose oxidase as H.sub.2 O.sub.2 generation system
    Patent number: 5288746
    Abstract: Liquid laundry detergent compositions containing glucose and glucose oxidase for generation of hydrogen peroxide during the laundering process are stabilized against premature hydrogen peroxide generation in the composition during storage by inclusion of Cu.sup.2+ or Ag.sup.+ ions in said compositions. The compositions also contain a bleaching catalyst to facilitate bleaching by the hydrogen peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kakumanu Pramod