Patents by Inventor Lee Mathew Arent

Lee Mathew Arent 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: 20240158990
    Abstract: A biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte BOSWELL, Uwe BOLZ, Patti Jean KELLETT, James Terry KNAPMEYER, Pier-Lorenzo CARUSO, Lee Mathew ARENT, John Moncrief LAYMAN, Jack Alan HUNTER
  • Patent number: 11913173
    Abstract: A biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Uwe Bolz, Patti Jean Kellett, James Terry Knapmeyer, Pier-Lorenzo Caruso, Lee Mathew Arent, John Moncrief Layman, Jack Alan Hunter
  • Patent number: 11821142
    Abstract: Methods for producing biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Uwe Bolz, Patti Jean Kellett, James Terry Knapmeyer, Pier-Lorenzo Caruso, Lee Mathew Arent, John Moncrief Layman, Jack Alan Hunter
  • Patent number: 11597575
    Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Patent number: 11472146
    Abstract: A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Andrew Paul Rapach
  • Publication number: 20220204241
    Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Susana E. Borrero, Benjamin G. Hesford, Jun You, Jason M. Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Patent number: 11352185
    Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Stephen Michael Truesdell
  • Patent number: 11345532
    Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Patent number: 11338975
    Abstract: A container blank having an article handling feature for handling the container blank as well as the flexible packages made therefrom during manufacture, and method of making flexible packages using such a feature are described herein. Also described herein is an array of flexible packages containing a common article handling feature provided by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Richard Matthew Giachetto
  • Publication number: 20220110801
    Abstract: A package of one or more absorbent articles is disclosed. The package includes a package material enclosing the one or more absorbent articles. The package material has natural fibers and forms a front panel, a back panel opposite the front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel opposite the first side panel, a top panel, and a bottom panel opposite the top panel. The panels define an interior compartment. The package material has a Basis Weight of between about 55 gsm and about 115 gsm, according to the Basis Weight Test Method. The package has a weakened region. The package is sealed such that the one or more absorbent articles are enclosed in the interior compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Michael REMUS, Naomi Ruth NELSON, Lee Mathew ARENT, Edward Daniel THEISS, III, Stephan SPIEKERS, Victoria Anne BORCHERT, Peter KRAMKOWSKI, Michael Wayne TAYLOR, Benjamin Jacob CLARE, Emily Charlotte BOSWELL, Nery Vanesa BRESLIN
  • Publication number: 20220112663
    Abstract: A biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Uwe Bolz, Patti Jean Kellett, James Terry Knapmeyer, Pier-Lorenzo Caruso, Lee Mathew Arent, John Moncrief Layman, Jack Alan Hunter
  • Publication number: 20220112664
    Abstract: Methods for producing biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Emily Charlotte Boswell, Uwe Bolz, Patti Jean Kellett, James Terry Knapmeyer, Pier-Lorenzo Caruso, Lee Mathew Arent, John Moncrief Layman, Jack Alan Hunter
  • Publication number: 20220031532
    Abstract: A package of one or more absorbent articles is disclosed. The package includes a package material comprising natural fibers. The package material forms a front panel, a back panel opposite the front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel opposite the first side panel, a top panel, and a bottom panel opposite the top panel. The panels define an interior compartment, wherein the one or more absorbent articles are disposed in the interior compartment. At least three of the panels are free of seams. The package material has a Basis Weight of between about 50 gsm and about 120 gsm, according to the Basis Weight Test Method. The package is recyclable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Michael REMUS, Edward Daniel THEISS, III, Ilana Jessica KRAUSE, Stephan SPIEKERS, Lee Mathew ARENT, Benjamin Jacob CLARE, Emily Charlotte BOSWELL
  • Patent number: 11124346
    Abstract: A shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent
  • Patent number: 11091306
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers with easily variable sizing. Line ups of flexible containers have similar sizes, shapes, and constructions, but hold differing amounts of fluent product at unexpected fill heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Richard Matthew Giachetto, Gavin John Broad, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You, Charles John Berg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11072478
    Abstract: A flexible package having first, second, and third flexible material layers, with the second flexible material layer being disposed between the first and third flexible material layers; a product receiving chamber having a product receiving chamber outer circumference defined by the first flexible material layer; a plurality of spaced first seals disposed around a package circumference, the first seals sealing the first, second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of spaced second seals disposed around the product receiving chamber outer circumference, the second seals sealing the second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of inner expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between adjacent ones of the first seals; and a plurality of outer expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between a second seal and an immediately adjacent first seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare
  • Publication number: 20200024049
    Abstract: A flexible package having first, second, and third flexible material layers, with the second flexible material layer being disposed between the first and third flexible material layers; a product receiving chamber having a product receiving chamber outer circumference defined by the first flexible material layer; a plurality of spaced first seals disposed around a package circumference, the first seals sealing the first, second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of spaced second seals disposed around the product receiving chamber outer circumference, the second seals sealing the second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of inner expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between adjacent ones of the first seals; and a plurality of outer expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between a second seal and an immediately adjacent first seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare
  • Publication number: 20200024057
    Abstract: A shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent
  • Publication number: 20200024050
    Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Stephen Michael Truesdell
  • Publication number: 20200024053
    Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire