Patents by Inventor Nathalie Collin

Nathalie Collin 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: 7785613
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition comprising, in an aqueous medium, at least one film-forming polymer, at least one aqueous microdispersion of wax, and at least one water-soluble aromatic acid ester that is liquid at room temperature. The present disclosure also relates to the process for cosmetically treating keratinous materials, such as the skin, comprising applying said composition to keratinous materials. The composition is easy to apply on keratinous materials and forms a glossy and non-sticky film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Nathalie Collin, Sandrine Olivier
  • Patent number: 7410636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium containing a fatty phase, a polymer with a weight-average molecular mass of less than 100 000 and in particular ranging from 1 000 to 30 000, comprising a) a polymer skeleton containing hydrocarbon-based repeating units containing at least one hetero atom, and optionally b) pendent fatty chains and/or terminal fatty chains, which may be functionalized, containing from 6 to 120 carbon atoms and being linked to these units, and fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20080124292
    Abstract: Composition preferably useful for coating the eyelashes containing an aqueous phase and an emulsifying system which has, as the main surfactant system, at least one surfactant chosen from: the combination of at least one C16-C30 fatty acid and of at least one basic amino acid, at least one glutamic acid compound and/or one of its salts, at least one sarcosine compound of formula: CH3—N(R)—CH2—COOH in which R is an acyl group O?CR?, R? being a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, hydrocarbon chain comprising from 10 to 30 carbon atoms, or one of its cosmetically acceptable salts, a glycine compound and/or a salt of the compound, and their mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Nathalie Collin, Olivier Raineau, Stephane Arditty
  • Patent number: 7351418
    Abstract: Cosmetic composition comprising a polymer blend The invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least a first polymer with a weight-average molecular mass of less than 100 000, comprising a) a polymer skeleton containing hydrocarbon-based repeating Units containing at least one hetero atom, and optionally b) at least one pendent fatty chain and/or at least one terminal fatty chain, which may be functionalized, containing from 6 to 120 carbon atoms and being linked to these hydrocarbon-based units, a dispersion of particles of a second film-forming polymer that is insoluble in said medium. Application to make-up and caring for keratin materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20070056045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer products provide for designating areas or objects in an electronic document as controlled access regions for prohibiting or limiting access to the regions and/or for limiting application functionalities that may be utilized in the regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Shawn Villaron
  • Publication number: 20060282759
    Abstract: A custom layout may be created that includes an arbitrary number of placeholders. Instead of having to use one of the predefined slide layouts available from a presentation program, a user may create their own set of custom layouts that may be used in zero or more presentations and applied to zero or more slides. A custom layout may include title placeholders, header/footer placeholders, as well as body placeholders. The custom layouts may contain both typed and un-typed placeholders. The placeholders on the custom layout may be positioned and formatted as desired by the user. A user may also create and include customized backgrounds on the custom layout. The custom layout may be edited in the same manner as a slide. The user may utilize the interface to copy, move, delete, and edit the custom layouts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Hoa Lu
  • Publication number: 20060282779
    Abstract: A new design is applied to a slide. A search is made within layouts associated with the new design for an equivalent layout to the slide's layout. When an equivalent layout is found, the placeholders are mapped from the slide to a new slide base on the equivalent layout. An equivalent layout is determined based on a comparison between the slide's layout and the new design. The comparison is based on the name of the layouts, the number of placeholders, and whether the placeholders are of an equivalent type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Hoa Lu, Dennis Coh
  • Publication number: 20060265659
    Abstract: An N-level inheritance model is provided to develop presentations. A hierarchical inheritance model includes master slides, custom layout slides, and slides including the material for the presentation. The inheritance model allows presentation authors to both define an overall look for the presentation as well as the ability to customize slide layouts individually. An author may create custom layouts that may be applied to a single slide as well as a set of slides. Properties that are defined at any level within the hierarchy may be inherited by the lower levels within the hierarchy. Each level within the presentation may also make an exception to an inherited property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Hoa Lu, Andy Chin, Rebecca Levine, Shawn Villaron
  • Publication number: 20060259858
    Abstract: A new slide layout having an arbitrary number of placeholders is applied to an existing slide. Placeholders in an original slide are mapped to placeholders within a new slide layout configuration. The slide layouts may be predefined slide layouts that include a predetermined number of placeholders or customized slide layouts that include an arbitrary number of placeholders. The placeholders in the original slide are mapped to a new slide layout that may have fewer, the same, or more placeholders than the original slide layout. The placeholders may be matched based on many different criteria, including, the function of the placeholder; the name of the placeholder; the type of the placeholder; and the position ID of the placeholder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Hoa Lu
  • Publication number: 20060259875
    Abstract: A user interface within a presentation program manages hierarchical relationships. A master view includes a thumbnail view that shows the hierarchical relationship between slide masters and layouts used within the presentation. In one example, the thumbnail view is a series of thumbnail tree-controls where each slide master is the top node of the tree control and the layouts are the children of the slide master. A user may copy, move, delete, and edit slide masters, layouts, and slides using the user interface. A contextual representation of slide master and layout commands may be shown in the same overall user interface space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathalie Collins, Rebecca Levine, Dennis Coh
  • Patent number: 6946123
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the make-up to and care of a keratinous material comprising applying to a keratinous material a composition comprising an aqueous microdispersion of particles of at least one wax and an aqueous dispersion of particles of at least one film-forming polymer. The composition makes it possible to obtain a film which may be resistant to cold water and may be removed as make-up with hot water. The invention also relates to a mascara comprising an aqueous microdispersion of particles of at least one wax and an aqueous dispersion of particles of at least one film-forming polymer wherein the particles of at least one film-forming polymer have a mean particle size of at least 10 nm and further wherein the at least one film-forming polymer is not a coloring polymer and methods for application of the mascara.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Valérie De La Poterie, Nathalie Collin, Bertrand Piot
  • Publication number: 20050089491
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an effective amount of a first polymer with a weight-average molecular mass of less than 100 000, comprising a) a polymer skeleton containing hydrocarbon-based repeating units containing at least one hetero atom, and optionally b) at least one pendent fatty chain and/or at least one terminal fatty chain, which may be functionalized, containing from 6 to 120 carbon atoms and being linked to these hydrocarbon-based units, in a make-up composition comprising a physiologically acceptable medium containing a fatty phase, as an agent for increasing the speed of achieving a make-up result on keratin materials and/or for increasing the adhesion to said keratin materials and/or for rapidly increasing the amount of make-up deposited on the keratin materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20050089505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least a first polymer with a weight-average molecular mass of less than 100 000, comprising a) a polymer skeleton containing hydrocarbon-based repeating units containing at least one hetero atom, and optionally b) at least one pendent fatty chain and/or at least one terminal fatty chain, which may be functionalized, containing from 6 to 120 carbon atoms and being linked to these hydrocarbon-based units, a dispersion of particles of a second film-forming polymer that is insoluble in said medium. Application to making-up and caring for keratin materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Patent number: 6881400
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one polymer chosen from ethylenediamine/stearyl dimer tallate copolymer in a mascara for increasing the adhesion of and/or expressly loading make-up deposited on the eyelashes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20050065253
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cosmetic composition comprising, in an aqueous medium, a film-forming polymer, an aqueous wax micro-dispersion and an aromatic acid ester, liquid at room temperature and water soluble. The invention also concerns a method for cosmetic make-up or non-therapeutic care of keratinous materials, in particular the skin, comprising application of keratinous materials of said composition. The composition can easily be applied on keratinous materials and forms a glossy and non-sticky film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Nathalie Collin, Sandrine Olivier
  • Patent number: 6835399
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of lengthening eyelashes, comprising: applying to the eyelashes an effective amount of mascara comprising a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least one first polymer of formula (I): in which n is an integer which represents the number of amide units such that the number of ester groups present in said at least one structuring polymer ranges from 10% to 50% of the total number of all said ester groups and all said amide groups comprised in said at least one structuring polymer; R1, which are identical or different are each chosen from alkyl groups having at least 4 carbon atoms and alkenyl groups having at least 4 carbon atoms; R2, which are identical or different, are each chosen from C4 to C42 hydrocarbon-based groups with the proviso that at least 50% of R2 are chosen from C30 to C42 hydrocarbon-based groups; R3, which are identical or different, are each chosen from C2 to C36 hydrocarbon-based groups; R4, which are identic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: L'Oréal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20040143908
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an effective amount of at least one polymer chosen from polymers of the following formula (I): 1 in which n denotes a number of amide units, such that the number of ester groups represents from 10% to 50% of the total number of ester and amide groups; R1 is, in each case, independently an alkyl or alkenyl group having at least 4 carbon atoms; R2 independently represents, in each case, a C4 to C42 hydrocarbonaceous group, provided that 50% of the R2 groups represent a C30 to C42 hydrocarbonaceous group; R3 independently represents, in each case, an organic group provided with at least 2 carbon atoms, with hydrogen atoms and optionally with one or more oxygen or nitrogen atoms; and R4 independently represents, in each case, a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C10 alkyl group or a direct bond to R3 or another R4, so that the nitrogen atom to which both R3 and R4 are bonded forms part of a heterocyclic structure defined by R4-N-R3, with at least 50% of the R4 groups representing a h
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20040126401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium containing a fatty phase:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20040028636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium containing a fatty phase, a polymer with a weight-average molecular mass of less than 100 000 and in particular ranging from 1 000 to 30 000, comprising a) a polymer skeleton containing hydrocarbon-based repeating units containing at least one hetero atom, and optionally b) pendent fatty chains and/or terminal fatty chains, which may be functionalized, containing from 6 to 120 carbon atoms and being linked to these units, and fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Nathalie Collin
  • Publication number: 20040009201
    Abstract: The invention concerns a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least a liquid fatty phase comprising at least a volatile organic solvent and at least an aqueous phase. The invention is characterised in that the aqueous phase contains a micro-dispersion of wax particles. The composition results, after being applied on keratinous fibres, in a water-resistant film and provides good curved shape to the keratinous fibres. The invention is applicable to mascara.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Nathalie Collin, Bertrand Piot