Patents by Inventor Kevin Ronald Franklin
Kevin Ronald Franklin 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).
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Publication number: 20030180240Abstract: Clear solid suspension antiperspirant compositions comprise 0.5 to 50% by weight of a particulate antiperspirant active material of which less than 50% by weight of its particles are below 10 &mgr;m diameter and a refractive index of from 1.49 to 1.57 at 22° C. is suspended in a water-immiscible carrier liquid of which at least 50% by weight is selected from liquid non-volatile silicone oils and liquid alkyl-aryl esters and not more than 25% by weight of the carrier liquid comprises a volatile silicone oil. The carrier liquid and the antiperspirant have refractive indexes which differ by no more than 0.02 at 22° C. and the structurant which solidifies the carrier liquid comprises a fibre-forming non-polymeric structurant, and preferably an N-acyl aminoacid amide such as GP1 and/or a cyclodipeptide such as a thymol derivative of (2S-cis)-(−)-5-benzyl-3,6-dioxo-2-piperazine acetic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Colette Marie Fairclough, Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Patent number: 6589515Abstract: A cosmetic composition, preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified maltose of the formulae: which is the &bgr;-anomer, and optionally which is the &agr;-anomer; wherein each Z is independently hydrogen or an acyl group of the formula: where R denotes a hydrocarbyl group containing from 8 to 31 carbon atoms, with the proviso that not more than half of the Z groups are hydrogen, and the ratio of &bgr;-anomer to &agr;-anomer is from 65:35 to 100:0.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Nicolas Lasbistes, Nicholas Webb, Michael Stephen White
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Publication number: 20030103920Abstract: A firm solid antiperspirant composition having a continuous phase comprising water-immiscible liquid containingType: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sarah Jayne Clare, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Angela Mary Murphy, Kathryn Elizabeth Gransden, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20030086884Abstract: The invention anhydrous antiperspirant cream composition which comprises:Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Daniel Albert Martindale
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Publication number: 20030064047Abstract: This invention relates to an aqueous hair care composition comprising water-insoluble particles having a layered structure comprising oxygen atoms and silicon and/or phosphorus atoms, and comprising organic functional groups which are bonded to silicon and/or phosphorus atoms in the layers by covalent bonds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Elena Maria Gabriella Barbuzzi, Wolfgang Robert Bergmann, Mrunalini Dhamdhere, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Cheryl Anne Taylor, Nicola Whilton
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Patent number: 6458344Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula wherein each Z is independently hydrogen or an acyl group of the formula where R denotes a hydrocarbyl group containing from 4 to 22 carbon atoms. Not more than half of the Z groups are hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, David Terence Parrott, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe, Michael Stephen White
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Patent number: 6455056Abstract: A cosmetic composition contains a water-immiscible carrier liquid and a structurant therefor which is effective to gel the composition upon cooling from a temperature at which the structurant is a mobile solution in the carrier liquid. The carrier liquid may serve as a continuous phase in which a solid or liquid disperse phase is suspended. The structurant is a fully or partially esterified saccharide which contains no more than eight monosaccharide residues and has an enthalpy of gelation in the carrier liquid with a magnitude of at least 45 kJ/mole. This minimum enthalpy of gelation facilitates processing at conveniently accessible temperatures and promotes stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Andrew Hopkinson
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Patent number: 6426060Abstract: A cosmetic composition is a structured emulsion of a continuous phase containing water-immiscible liquid carrier plus a structurant, and a disperse phase which is a solution of antiperspirant active in a more polar, probably aqueous, solvent. The structurant is a material which forms a network of fibers in the continuous phase, thereby gelling it. The structurant has an enthalpy of gelation in the carrier liquid or a test liquid with a magnitude of at least 30 kJ/mole. This minimum enthalpy of gelation facilitates processing at conveniently accessible temperatures and promotes stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Andrew Hopkinson
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Patent number: 6410001Abstract: Compositions for application to human skin have a continuous phase which contains water-immiscible oil structured by incorporation of a compound of formula in which Y and Y1 are each independently —CH2 or >CO Q and Q1 are each independently a hydrocarbyl group of at least 6 carbon atoms and m is from 2 to 4. The composition may be an antiperspirant containing suspended particulate antiperspirant active or containing a dispersed phase in which antiperspirant active is dissolved in water or water-immiscible solvent.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Ian Peter Stott, Rahila Bhat
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Patent number: 6410003Abstract: Antiperspirant formulations containing an antiperspirant active and a continuous phase comprising a water-immiscible liquid carrier, such as, amongst other materials, cyclomethicones, that is structured using an amido-containing compound of the general formula in which R and R1 each independently denote a branched or unbranched moiety containing 5 to 27 carbon atoms, m and n are each independently, zero or 1, Y is a cyclohexane ring bearing the amido-containing substituent groups in 1,2 or 1,3 positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2001Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Shameem Bhatia, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Lara Dimitrova Stoimenof, Michael Stephen White
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Publication number: 20020076386Abstract: A cosmetic composition, preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified maltose of the formulae: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Nicolas Lasbistes, Nicholas Webb, Michael Stephen White
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Publication number: 20020072506Abstract: Acylated cellobiose compounds (CHME) which satisfy the formula; 1Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Andrew Hopkinson, Nicholas Webb, Michael Stephen White
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Patent number: 6391291Abstract: A firm solid antiperspirant composition having a continuous phase comprising water-immiscible liquid containing i) one or more gelating structurant materials which form a network of fibres within the liquid, and ii) a polymeric thickener which has an organic polymer backbone containing at least five monomer repeat units, which polymer has the ability to increase the viscosity of the water-immiscible liquid in the absence of the gelating structurant materials; and iii) an antiperspirant active dispersed in the continuous phase, said composition being free from or containing less than 3% by weight of a fatty alcohol that is solid at 20° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sarah Jayne Clare, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Angela Mary Murphy, Kathryn Elizabeth Gransden (nee Rowe), Graham Andrew Turner
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Patent number: 6387358Abstract: Soft solid antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active material is suspended in a continuous phase containing a water-immiscible liquid which is structured by specified proportions of an organic polymeric thickener and a second structurant selected from fibre-forming structurants and waxes (often other than fatty alcohols) or a mixture of both. Such soft solid formulations avoid or minimise problems inherent in production of many published formulations such as sensitivity to small changes in concentration of the structurant.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Beng Sim Chuah, Sarah Jane Clare, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Gordon Charles Hough, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20020051757Abstract: A firm solid antiperspirant composition having a continuous phase comprising water-immiscible liquid containingType: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sarah Jayne Clare, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Angela Mary Murphy, Kathryn Elizabeth Gransden (nee Rowe), Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20020039563Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active is suspended in a carrier fluid can result in significant visible deposits when applied to skin or when transferred onto clothing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: April 4, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, IncInventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Grahm Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20020037263Abstract: Antiperspirant formulations containing an antiperspirant active and a continuous phase comprising a water-immiscible liquid carrier, such as, amongst other materials, cyclomethicones, that is structured using an amido-containing compound of the general formula 1Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, IncInventors: Shameem Bhatia, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Lara Dimitrova Stoimenof, Michael Stephen White
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Patent number: 6361766Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active is suspended in a carrier fluid can result in significant visible deposits when applied to skin or when transferred onto clothing. Anhydrous antiperspirant suspension sticks which exhibit very low visible deposits are obtainable by employing a carrier fluid in which at least 45% and preferably at least 60% of its weight comprises an oxygen-containing emollient oil having a refractive index of at least 1.465, in conjunction with structurant comprises a wax or a non-polymeric fiber-forming gellant, excluding certain gellants or gellant combinations. Preferred emollient oils include alkyl benzoates and alkylphenylsiloxanes. The waxes can even comprise fatty alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2001Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20020034481Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active is suspended in a carrier fluid can result in significant visible deposits when applied to skin or when transferred onto clothing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: James Michael Bianchi, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Bruce Howard Glickman, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20010055574Abstract: A cosmetic composition is a structured emulsion of a continuous phase containing water-immiscible liquid carrier plus a structurant, and a disperse phase which is a solution of antiperspirant active in a more polar, probably aqueous, solvent. The structurant is a material which forms a network of fibers in the continuous phase, thereby gelling it. The structurant has an enthalpy of gelation in the carrier liquid or a test liquid with a magnitude of at least 30 kJ/mole. This minimum enthalpy of gelation facilitates processing at conveniently accessible temperatures and promotes stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2000Publication date: December 27, 2001Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Andrew Hopkinson