Patents by Inventor Mark Bruce Majors

Mark Bruce Majors 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: 20040116018
    Abstract: The present invention provides fibers, foams, films and nonwoven fabrics having more than one skin treatment benefit and/or improved skin treatment benefit(s) and to products incorporated such fibers, foams, films and fabrics. The present invention also provides a method of forming fibers, nonwoven fabrics, porous films and foams with multiple skin treatment additives that impart a number of skin health attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Dale Fenwick, Bryan David Haynes, Susan Carol Paul, Ali Yahiaoui, Varunesh Sharma, David John Tyrrell, Bernard Joseph Minerath, Duane Gerard Krzysik, David William Koenig, Mark Bruce Majors, Braulio Arturo Polanco, Matthew Boyd Lake, Earl David Brock
  • Patent number: 6410823
    Abstract: A film cover for use in absorbent materials such as feminine care products, surgical drapes, fenestration reinforcement, absorbent pads and the like including a polymeric film having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface and forming a plurality of apertures, at least a portion of which have an aperture region having a higher wettability than a portion of the top planar surface of the polymeric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Allen Daley, Mark Bruce Majors, Ali Yahiaoui, Arthur Edward Garavaglia, Michael David Powers, David Wayne Primm, Tamara Lee Mace, Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Gregory Alan Zelazoski, Jon Edward Tinsley, Jaime Braverman
  • Patent number: 6264872
    Abstract: Embossed textured films are made by feeding a thin thermoplastic polymer barrier film through the nip of a bonding roll assembly having a patterned roll and an anvil roll rotating at different circumferential speeds which differ by 5% to 200%. The bond pattern is imparted to the film as well as additional texture due to the differential speeds of the rollers thereby creating an embossed, textured barrier film having improved hand and a hydrohead in excess of about 30 mbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Bruce Majors, Billy Ray Jones
  • Patent number: 5919177
    Abstract: There is provided a cushioned absorbent material which may be used as a bodyside liner for a personal care product which is made from a lofty nonwoven fabric onto which is extruded a film to form a laminate. The laminate is then apertured and has an 8 cc intake rate of at most 20 sec and a rewet of less than 1 gm. Such a liner may be used in personal care products like diapers, training pants, feminine hygiene products, absorbent underpants, adult incontinence products, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: William Anthony Georger, Mark Bruce Majors, Gregory Alan Zelazoski
  • Patent number: 5704101
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process and apparatus for aperturing, creping and optionally laminating webs such as, for example, films and fibrous nonwovens. The present invention is also directed to the resultant materials. The process for aperturing and creping webs utilizes a pattern roll and an anvil roll with the anvil roll being rotated faster that the pattern roll. The resultant material is visually much different than conventional materials which are typically run through similar rolls wherein the pattern roll and anvil roll are run at the same speed or wherein the pattern roll is run faster than the anvil roll. The resultant materials have a wide variety of applications not the least of which includes a liner material for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, training pants, feminine hygiene products, bandages and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Bruce Majors, Benjamin John DeCorso, William Anthony Georger, Richard John Schmidt, Howard Martin Welch, Gregory Alan Zelazoski