Patents by Inventor Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN

Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN 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: 20220315869
    Abstract: A water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article having a weight ratio of laundry detergent to total water-soluble film in the water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article of at least 45:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Nikola CURCIC, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Jack Wesley ENGLISH, III, Gary James DECHERT
  • Patent number: 11401489
    Abstract: A water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article having a weight ratio of laundry detergent to total water-soluble film in the water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article of at least 45:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Nikola Curcic, Katrien Andrea Lieven Van Elsen, Jack Wesley English, III, Gary James Dechert
  • Publication number: 20220235293
    Abstract: A method of cleaning dishware in a domestic dishwasher using a program having a cleaning cycle and a rinse cycle, the method includes the steps of placing the dishware in the dishwasher; delivering a cleaning composition into the cleaning cycle to form a wash liquor and subjecting the dishware to the wash liquor; and delivering a rinse composition to form a rinse liquor, the composition includes an amphiphilic graft polymer based on water-soluble polyalkylene oxides as a graft base and side chains formed by polymerization of a vinyl ester component, wherein said amphiphilic graft polymer is water-soluble or water-dispersible and has a weight average molar mass (Mw) of from about 3,000 to about 100,000 and subjecting the dishware to the rinse liquor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN
  • Publication number: 20220169952
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing cleaning composition having from about 20% to about 50% by weight of the composition of a complexing agent selected from the group consisting of methyl glycine diacetic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof citric acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, glutamic-N,N-diacetic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, iminodisuccinic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, carboxy methyl inulin, its salts and derivatives thereof, aspartic acid-N,N-diacetic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof; and an amphiphilic graft polymer based on water-soluble polyalkylene oxides as a graft base and side chains formed by polymerization of a vinyl ester component, wherein said amphiphilic graft polymer is water-soluble or water-dispersible and has a weight average molar mass (Mw) of from about 3,000 to about 100,000; and optionally a dispersant polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN
  • Publication number: 20220151456
    Abstract: A method of cleaning dishware in a domestic dishwasher using a program including a cleaning cycle and a rinse cycle is described. The method includes the steps of a) placing the dishware in the dishwasher; b) delivering a cleaning composition having enzymes into the cleaning cycle to form a wash liquor and subjecting the dishware to the wash liquor; and c) delivering a rinse composition free of enzymes and free of bleach into the rinse cycle to form a rinse liquor having a pH of greater than 9 and subjecting the dishware to the rinse liquor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN
  • Publication number: 20220098529
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition and method of use is described. The automatic dishwashing cleaning composition can include a terpolymer including (meth)acrylic acid, linear or branched C1-C20 alkyl (meth)acrylate and vinylpyrrolidone; and a non-ionic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Linsey Sarah FULLER, Nevena LUKIC
  • Patent number: 10870821
    Abstract: A water-soluble unit dose article that includes a water-soluble film and at least a first internal compartment, where the first internal compartment includes one or more of a first particle, where the first particle comprises between about 45% and about 95% by weight of the first particle of a carrier material selected from polyethylene glycol, polyvinyl alcohol, urea, polyurethane, silica, alkoxylated fatty alcohols or mixtures thereof, between about 1% and about 50% by weight of the first particle of a benefit agent, and less than about 20% by weight of the first particle of a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Jean-Pol Boutique, Laura Orlandini, Megan Rose McCafferty, Nea Janette Lintula, Audrey Claire Francoise Bouniol, Katrien Andrea Lieven Van Elsen, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Matthew Lawrence Lynch
  • Publication number: 20200131457
    Abstract: A water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article having a weight ratio of laundry detergent to total water-soluble film in the water-soluble multicompartment unit dose article of at least 45:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Nikola CURCIC, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Jack Wesley ENGLISH, III, Gary James DECHERT
  • Publication number: 20200048588
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles containing amphiphilic graft polymer and carboxymethylcellulose. Processes of washing fabrics using the water-soluble unit dose articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Robby Renilde François KEULEERS
  • Publication number: 20190048298
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles containing amphiphilic graft polymer and polyester terephthalate. Processes of washing fabrics using such water-soluble unit dose articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Robby Renilde François KEULEERS
  • Publication number: 20190048299
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles containing polyester terephthalate and carboxymethylcellulose. Processes of washing fabrics using such water-soluble unit dose articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Robby Renilde François KEULEERS
  • Publication number: 20190048297
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles containing amphiphilic graft polymer, polyester terephthalate and carboxymethylcellulose. Processes of washing fabrics using the water-soluble unit dose articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Robby Renilde François KEULEERS
  • Patent number: 9896646
    Abstract: The present invention is to a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising an anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant, between 0.5 wt % and 25 wt % water and 0.05% and 2% by weight of the composition of a cationic polymer being an hydroxyethyl cellulose polymer derivatized with trimethyl ammonium substituted epoxide, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises fatty acid; and wherein; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to anionic surfactant is less than 1:5; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to non-ionic surfactant is more than 1:10; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to total surfactant is less than 1:5; and wherein the weight ratio of anionic to non-ionic surfactant is from 5:1 to 23:1, wherein ‘total surfactant’ means the level of all surfactant present in the liquid laundry detergent composition, including but not limited to all anionic, non-ionic and cationic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Katrien Andrea Lieven Van Elsen
  • Publication number: 20170175057
    Abstract: A water-soluble unit dose article that includes a water-soluble film and at least a first internal compartment, where the first internal compartment includes one or more of a first particle, where the first particle comprises between about 45% and about 95% by weight of the first particle of a carrier material selected from polyethylene glycol, polyvinyl alcohol, urea, polyurethane, silica, alkoxylated fatty alcohols or mixtures thereof, between about 1% and about 50% by weight of the first particle of a benefit agent, and less than about 20% by weight of the first particle of a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Jean-Pol BOUTIQUE, Laura ORLANDINI, Megan Rose MCCAFFERTY, Nea Janette LINTULA, Audrey Claire Francoise BOUNIOL, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN, Hugo Robert Germain DENUTTE, Matthew Lawrence LYNCH
  • Patent number: 9404071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising a) anionic surfactant; and b) solvent system comprising at least one primary solvent having Hansen solubility (?) of less than 29 said composition being encapsulated in a water soluble film pouch, for reducing migration and weeping of said composition through said film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Regine Labeque, Katrien Andrea Lieven Van Elsen
  • Publication number: 20160040105
    Abstract: A water-soluble laundry unit dose article comprising a liquid composition, wherein said composition comprises; an anionic surfactant; an ethoxylated alcohol non-ionic surfactant; water; wherein the weight ratio of total anionic: non-ionic is between 5:1 and 23:1; and wherein the composition comprises between 0.1 wt % and 5 wt % of a perfume and between 0.1 wt % and 5 wt % of an encapsulated perfume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN
  • Publication number: 20160040103
    Abstract: The present invention is to a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising an anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant, between 0.5 wt % and 25 wt % water and 0.05% and 2% by weight of the composition of a cationic polymer being an hydroxyethyl cellulose polymer derivatised with trimethyl ammonium substituted epoxide, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises fatty acid; and wherein; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to anionic surfactant is less than 1:5; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to non-ionic surfactant is more than 1:10; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to total surfactant is less than 1:5; and wherein the weight ratio of anionic to non-ionic surfactant is from 5:1 to 23:1, wherein ‘total surfactant’ means the level of all surfactant present in the liquid laundry detergent composition, including but not limited to all anionic, non-ionic and cationic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN
  • Publication number: 20150267154
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising a) anionic surfactant; and b) solvent system comprising at least one primary solvent having Hansen solubility (?) of less than 29 said composition being encapsulated in a water soluble film pouch, for reducing migration and weeping of said composition through said film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Regine LABEQUE, Katrien Andrea Lieven VAN ELSEN