Patents by Inventor Konstantin Benda

Konstantin Benda 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: 11104867
    Abstract: In a dishwashing liquid, the cleaning performance, in particular on bleachable stains such as, for example, tea stains, is to be improved. This succeeds using a dishwashing liquid which comprises a hydrogen peroxide source, a bleaching catalyst and a protease that, in native electrophoresis on a polyacrylamide gel, has a migration distance that is longer than the migration distance of the protease as per SEQ ID NO. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HENKEL IP & HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Hendrik Hellmuth, Thomas Weber
  • Patent number: 10093888
    Abstract: The aim is to improve detergency, in particular on custard stains, in an essentially solid dishwashing detergent. This is accomplished with an essentially solid dishwashing detergent which comprises a protease which comprises an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence given in SEQ ID NO. 1 and which has the amino acid glutamic acid (E) or aspartic acid (D) at position 99 in the count according to SEQ ID NO. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Timothy O'Connell
  • Patent number: 9752102
    Abstract: The intention is to improve storage stability in a liquid washing or cleaning agent which contains a protease and amylase. This is achieved by using a protease which comprises an amino acid sequence which, over the entire length thereof, is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence stated in SEQ ID no. 1 and, in the numbering according to SEQ ID no. 1, has the amino acid substitution R99E or R99D in combination with at least two further amino acid substitutions which are selected from the group consisting of S3T, V4I and V199I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Hendrik Hellmuth
  • Publication number: 20170130169
    Abstract: A cleaning agent is proposed that includes a first and a second protease, wherein a) the first protease comprises an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence specified in SEQ ID NO. 1 over the entire length and has at least one amino acid substitution at one of the positions 9, 15, 66, 212, and 239 using the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 1, and b) the second protease comprises an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence specified in SEQ ID NO. 2 over the entire length and has at least one amino acid substitution at one of the positions 32, 33, 48-54, 58-62, 94-107, 116, 123-133, 150, 152-156, 158-161, 164, 169, 175-186, 197, 198, and 203-216 using the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Timothy O'Connell, Hendrik Hellmuth, Silke Menke
  • Publication number: 20170114302
    Abstract: In a dishwashing liquid, the cleaning performance, in particular on bleachable stains such as, for example, tea stains, is to be improved. This succeeds using a dishwashing liquid which comprises a hydrogen peroxide source, a bleaching catalyst and a protease that, in native electrophoresis on a polyacrylamide gel, has a migration distance that is longer than the migration distance of the protease as per SEQ ID NO. 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Hendrik Hellmuth, Thomas Weber
  • Patent number: 9546347
    Abstract: The invention relates to fluid washing or cleaning products which are present as combination products comprising a packaging means and at least two fluid washing or cleaning compositions A and B that are located in said packaging means and that are separate from each other, wherein the two compositions A and B comprise A: 10 to 75 wt % of builder material(s); 0.1 to 10 wt % of enzyme preparation; 24.9 to 89.9 wt % of water; and B: less than 0.1 wt % of enzyme preparation; 0.5 to 90 wt % of water and at least one further ingredient of washing or cleaning products, and which fluid washing or cleaning products have an improved stability if the viscosity of the compositions A and B is above 1500 mPas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Konstantin Benda, Nina Muβmann, Thomas Eiting, Brigitte Kempen, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Peter Schmiedel
  • Patent number: 9512386
    Abstract: Stains on plastic dishware in the course of machine dishwashing can be prevented or at least reduced by use of hydrophobically modified polysaccharides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Nina Muβmann, Thomas Eiting, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit
  • Patent number: 9458416
    Abstract: It is possible to prevent or at least mitigate discoloration of plastics tableware during machine dishwashing by using amphiphilic block copolymers of -An-Bm- type, where A represents the hydrophilic monomer unit of the hydrophilic block An and B represents the hydrophobic monomer unit of the hydrophobic block Bm and a diene serves as monomer for the hydrophobic monomer unit B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Benoit Luneau, Christian Kropf, Mareile Job, Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Quang Ngoc Tran, Trang Phan, Didier Gigmes, Denis Bertin
  • Patent number: 9282876
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing system (1) for delivering at least one cleaning-agent preparation (A, B, C) into the interior of an automatic dishwasher, encompassing a dispenser (2) having a light source (4), and a cartridge (3) couplable to the dispenser (2), in which cartridge at least one flowable preparation (A, B, C) is stocked; the cartridge (3) has a width (b) to depth (t) ratio from 3:1 to 20:1 and the cartridge (3) has a height (h) to depth (t) ratio from 3:1 to 20:1, and the walls of the cartridge (3) have, at least locally, a transmittance from 75% to 99% in the wavelength region between 700 nm and 1 mm; the flowable preparation (A, B, C) has a transmittance from 75% to 99% in the wavelength region between 700 nm and 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Arnd Kessler, Salvatore Fileccia, Christian Nitsch
  • Patent number: 9234161
    Abstract: The present invention describes a dishwashing detergent containing at least four special nonionic surfactants for improving the drying of plastic wash ware. The invention further relates to the use of the dishwashing detergent in an automatic dishwashing method and to the use of the dishwashing detergent to improve the drying of plastic wash ware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda
  • Publication number: 20150329802
    Abstract: Automatic dishwashing methods using dishwashing agents that contain anionic surfactant(s) having at least one sulfate group or sulfonate group, as well as nonionic surfactant(s), produce very good drying of the dishes cleaned in an automatic dishwashing method. The automatic dishwashing agents additionally contain polycarboxylic acid in combination with methyglycinediacetic acid or glutaminediacetic acid or ethylenediaminedisuccinic acid, or salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Claudia Ottow
  • Publication number: 20150315529
    Abstract: The invention relates to liquid, low-water to water-free cleaning agents, in particular automatic dishwasher detergents, containing at least one rinse aid surfactant and at least one hydrophobically modified acrylate polymer or copolymer, selected from C10-C30 alkyl modified cross-linked polyacrylates, C10-C30 alkyl modified acrylate/vinyl ester copolymer and mixtures thereof. The invention also relates to the uses of said cleaning agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Konstantin Benda, Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Brigitte Kempen, Thorsten Bastigkeit
  • Patent number: 9163226
    Abstract: Phosphonate-containing liquid washing or cleaning agent exhibiting advantageous proteolytic activity and improved storage stability comprising a protease having an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence stated in SEQ ID NO. 1 and which comprises in position 99 in the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 1 the amino acid glutamic acid (E) or aspartic acid (D) or the amino acid asparagine (N) or glutamine (Q) or the amino acid alanine (A) or glycine (G) or serine (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Susanne Wieland, Petra Siegert, Astrid Spitz, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Timothy O'Connell, Inken Prueser, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Thomas Eiting, Dorota Sendor-Mueller, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Sven Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150291917
    Abstract: The aim is to improve detergency, in particular on custard stains, in an essentially solid dishwashing detergent. This is accomplished with an essentially solid dishwashing detergent which comprises a protease which comprises an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence given in SEQ ID NO. 1 and which has the amino acid glutamic acid (E) or aspartic acid (D) at position 99 in the count according to SEQ ID NO. 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Timothy O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20150275141
    Abstract: It is possible to prevent or at least mitigate discoloration of plastics tableware during machine dishwashing by using amphiphilic block copolymers of -An-Bm- type, where A represents the hydrophilic monomer unit of the hydrophilic block An and B represents the hydrophobic monomer unit of the hydrophobic block Bm and a diene serves as monomer for the hydrophobic monomer unit B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Benoit Luneau, Christian Kropf, Mareile Job, Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Quang Ngoc Tran, Trang Phan, Didier Gigmes, Denis Bertin
  • Publication number: 20150275137
    Abstract: The present invention describes a dishwashing detergent containing at least four special nonionic surfactants for improving the drying of plastic wash ware. The invention further relates to the use of the dishwashing detergent in an automatic dishwashing method and to the use of the dishwashing detergent to improve the drying of plastic wash ware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda
  • Publication number: 20150267153
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing liquid, low-water to water-free detergents or cleaning agents, in particular a machine dishwashing detergent, which contain at least one sulfo polymer and at least one builder component, wherein, during the production, the at least one sulfo polymer is used in the form of an aqueous solution and the at least one builder component is used in solid form. The invention further relates to detergents and cleaning agents produced using said process and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Konstantin Benda, Thomas Eiting, Nina Mussmann, Volker Blank, Noelle Wrubbel, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Oliver Kurth, Karl-Josef von den Driesch, Matthias Sunder
  • Publication number: 20150175939
    Abstract: Cleaning agents containing a) at least one protease which comprises an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical over its entire length to the amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO. 1 and, in the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 1, has the amino acid glutamic acid (E) at position 99; b) 4-formylphenylboronic acid; c) at least one further enzyme other than the protease a), are distinguished by improved enzymatic cleaning performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Hendrik Hellmuth
  • Publication number: 20150166939
    Abstract: Cleaning agents containing a) at least one protease from the group al) protease comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence stated in SEQ ID NO. 1 and, in the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 1, has the amino acid substitution R99E in combination with at least two further amino acid substitutions selected from the group consisting of S3T, V4I and V199I; a2) protease comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence stated in SEQ ID NO. 2 and, in the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 2, has the amino acid substitution S99A in combination with an insertion between positions 99 and 100, the inserted amino acid being Asp (D); b) 4-formylphenylboronic acid; c) at least one further enzyme other than the protease a), are distinguished by improved enzymatic cleaning performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Hendrik Hellmuth
  • Publication number: 20150152356
    Abstract: Stains on plastic dishware in the course of machine dishwashing can be prevented or at least reduced by use of hydrophobically modified polysaccharides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Nina Mussmann, Thomas Eiting, Konstantin Benda, Thorsten Bastigkeit