Patents by Inventor Neil Joseph Lant

Neil Joseph Lant 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).

  • WHITENESS PERCEPTION COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20100132134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Robert Sivik, Neil Joseph Lant, James Robert Lickiss
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20100132131
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain lipase variants and a photobleach and processes for making and using such compositions. Including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, John Allen Burdis, Neil Joseph Lant
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING POLYMER AND ENZYME
    Publication number: 20100125047
    Abstract: Laundry treatment composition comprising a substituted cellulose having a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99 and a specific degree of blockiness, DB, such that either DS+DB is of at least for DB+2DS?DS2 is of at least 1.20; a glycosyl hydrolase having enzymatic activity towards both xyloglucan and amorphous cellulose substrates, wherein the glycosyl hydrolase is selected from GH families 5, 12, 44 or 74; and optionally, one or more laundry adjunct ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • Detergent compositions
    Publication number: 20100093591
    Abstract: This invention relates to laundry detergent compositions comprising bacterial alkaline enzymes exhibiting endo-beta-1,4-glucanase activity (E.C. 3.2.1.4) and fabric hueing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • Whiteness perception compositions
    Patent number: 7686892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Andre Baeck, Jean-Luc Bettiol, Mark Robert Sivik, Neil Joseph Lant, James Robert Lickiss
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBOHYDRATE:ACCEPTOR OXIDOREDUCTASE
    Publication number: 20100056418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent composition comprising carbohydrate:acceptor oxidoreductase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING CELLO-OLIGOSACCHARIDE OXIDASE
    Publication number: 20100056417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent composition comprising cello-oligosaccharide oxidase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • CLEANING AND/OR TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20100055768
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain peroxidases and processes for making and using such compositions including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs, for example fabrics and surfaces. Such compositions provide enhanced cleaning and/or treatment benefits, for example soil bleaching and whiteness maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • PARTICULATE BLEACHING COMPOSITION COMPRISING ENZYMES
    Publication number: 20100041579
    Abstract: Particulate bleach additive composition containing enzymes, which can be used to bleach fabrics in conjunction with a conventional granular or liquid laundry detergent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Giulia Ottavia Bianchetti, Gloria Dicapua, Giovanni Grande, Neil Joseph Lant
  • Detergent Compositions
    Publication number: 20100022431
    Abstract: Detergent compositions containing an alkaline bacterial enzyme exhibiting endo-beta-1,4-glucanase activity (E.C. 3.2.1.4) and specific detergent formulations comprising less than 10 wt % zeolite and phosphate builder are described. Preferred formulations comprise surfactants selected from alkyl benzene sulphonates in combination with alkyl ethoxylated sulfates or MES or non-ionic surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Steven George Patterson
  • Laundry Composition
    Publication number: 20090318325
    Abstract: Laundry treatment composition comprising a substituted polysaccharide having a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99 and a specific degree of blockiness, DB, such that either DS+DB is of at least 1 or DB+2DS?DS2 is of at least 1.20, and a laundry adjunct ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • Laundry Composition
    Publication number: 20090318326
    Abstract: Laundry treatment composition comprising a substituted cellulose having a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99 and a specific degree of blockiness, DB, such that either DS+DB is of at least 1 or DB+2DS?DS2 is of at least 1.20, and a laundry adjunct ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VARIANT OF A FAMILY 44 XYLOGLUCANASE
    Publication number: 20090312221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a variant of a parent xyloglucanase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: NEIL JOSEPH LANT, WERNER BESENMATTER, ESBEN PETER FRIIS, KEITH GIBSON, FRANK WINTHER RASMUSSEN, MICHAEL SKJOT
  • Detergent compositions
    Publication number: 20090291875
    Abstract: This invention relates to laundry detergent compositions comprising bacterial alkaline enzymes exhibiting endo-beta-1,4-glucanase activity (E.C. 3.2.1.4) and modified cellulose derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Johan Smets, Charles David Bragg
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIPASE
    Publication number: 20090217463
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain lipase enzymes and processes for making and using such compositions, including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Neil Joseph Lant, Theresa Clare Haynes, Jesper Vind, Jurgen Carsten Franz Knotzel, Kim Borch, Allan Svendsen, Thomas Honger Callisen, Debbie Yaver, Mads Eskelund Bjornvad, Peter Kamp Hansen
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIPASE
    Publication number: 20090217464
    Abstract: The invention provides detergent compositions comprising lipolytic enzyme variants having improved in-detergent stability. Lipolytic enzyme variants with improved in-detergent stability are obtained by substituting certain specified amino acid residues in a parent lipolytic enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Neil Joseph Lant, Therese Clare Haynes, Jesper Vind, Kim Borch, Allan Svendsen, Robert Van der Lans, Lise Munch Mikkelsen, Christian Isak Jorgensen, Shamkant Anant Patkar
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20090203568
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a detergent ingredient and a specific lipase variant with reduced potential for odor generation and a good relative performance versus the parent lipase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, John Allen Burdis, Kim Borch, Allan Svendsen, Mikael Mikkelsen, Jesper Vind, Neil Joseph Lant
  • Detergent compositions
    Patent number: 7569528
    Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising high efficiency lipase enzymes and particles comprising encapsulated perfumes. Preferred perfumes have a boiling point at 760 mm Hg, of 260° C. or lower and a calculated CLogP of at least 3.0. The encapsulated perfume particles are useful in laundry compositions in order to provide efficacious perfume delivery at all stages of the wash, particularly during the laundering stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Allan Campbell McRitchie, Jonathan Richard Clare, Philip Frank Souter, Javier Medina, Zaiyou Liu
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20090192066
    Abstract: Detergent compositions containing high efficiency lipase enzymes and specific detergent formulations comprising less than 10 wt % zeolite and phosphate builder are described. Preferred formulations comprise surfactants selected from alkyl benzene sulphonates in combination with alky ethoxylated sulfates or MES or non-ionic surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Steven George Patterson
  • ENZYME AND FABRIC HUEING AGENT CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20090172895
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain glycosyl hydrolases and a fabric hueing agent and processes for making and using such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Genevieve Cagalawan Wenning