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).

  • METHOD FOR TREATING COTTON
    Publication number: 20200291333
    Abstract: A method of treating cotton comprising: (i) contacting cotton with an aqueous wash liquor comprising water and an endo-?-1,3-glucanase enzyme; (ii) optionally rinsing the cotton; and (iii) drying the cotton. The wash liquor may contain surfactant. The cotton may be contacted with the aqueous wash liquor with agitation. The method may be for removal of callose from cotton. The method may be for the manufacture of a cotton-containing fabric having improved whiteness maintenance, soil repellency, reduced malodour, anti-wrinkle benefits, and/or improved drying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Neil Joseph LANT
  • Fabric softening compositions comprising an esterquat and bacterial nuclease enzyme
    Patent number: 10723976
    Abstract: A fabric softener composition comprising a quaternary ammonium ester fabric softener compound and an enzyme selected from specific nuclease enzymes, galactanase enzymes and mannanase enzymes. Also, methods of treating a fabric comprising a laundering step, optional rinsing steps and a rinse-treatment step in which the fabric is treated with an aqueous rinse liquor comprising the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Klaus Gori
  • Method of laundering a fabric
    Patent number: 10717948
    Abstract: A method of laundering a fabric comprising the steps of; (i) contacting the fabric with a cutinase, (ii) contacting the fabric from step (i) with a soil; (iii) contacting the fabric from step (ii) with a laundry detergent composition, wherein the laundry detergent composition comprises a hueing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Linsey Sarah Bennie, Steven George Patterson, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick
  • Detergent composition
    Patent number: 10689603
    Abstract: A detergent composition including an oleic acid-transforming enzyme and a surfactant system. Furthermore, a method of manually washing articles including the steps of: delivering a composition including an oleic acid-transforming enzyme and a surfactant system to a volume of water to form a wash liquor and immersing the soiled articles, in the liquor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Denis Alfred Gonzales
  • Cleaning composition
    Patent number: 10640737
    Abstract: A cleaning composition including a) from about 1% to about 60% by weight of the composition of a surfactant system comprising an anionic surfactant and a primary co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactant, zwitterionic surfactant and mixtures thereof; and b) from about 0.001% to about 5% by weight of the composition of a class II hydrophobin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Denis Alfred Gonzales
  • Cleaning compositions having an enzyme system
    Patent number: 10597612
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions having an enzyme system, where the enzyme system includes a nuclease enzyme, an extracellular-polymer-degrading enzyme, and a cleaning adjunct. Methods of making and using such cleaning compositions. Use of an extracellular-polymer-degrading enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Montserrat Guadalupe Vasquez Valdivieso
  • METHOD OF CLEANING
    Publication number: 20200063073
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a surface comprising contacting the surface with a wash liquor, the wash liquor comprising a cleaning composition and an oxidoreductase enzyme immobilised on a supporting substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Montserrat Guadalupe Vasquez Valdivieso, Neil Joseph Lant, Steven George Patterson
  • CLEANING AGENT
    Publication number: 20200063071
    Abstract: A cleaning agent comprising a supporting substrate with an oxidoreductase enzyme immobilized thereon wherein the oxidoreductase enzyme is selected from oxidoreductase enzymes having an enzyme classification number selected from the group consisting of E.C. 1.1-1.10 and E.C. 1.12-1.99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Montserrat Guadalupe Vasquez Valdivieso, Neil Joseph LANT, Steven George PATTERSON
  • CLEANING KIT
    Publication number: 20200063072
    Abstract: A cleaning kit comprising a cleaning agent comprising a supporting substrate and an oxidoreductase mediator. The oxidoreductase-mediator is immobilized on the supporting substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Montserrat Guadalupe VASQUEZ VALDIVIESO, Neil Joseph LANT, Steven George PATTERSON
  • Cleaning compositions including enzymes
    Patent number: 10550443
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions having an amylase enzyme and a glycosyl hydrolase enzyme. Methods of making and using cleaning compositions having an amylase enzyme and a glycosyl hydrolase enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • Particles including enzyme
    Patent number: 10538720
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles. The particles include from about 40% to about 99% by weight of said particles of a carrier and from about 0.0001% to about 5% by weight of an enzyme. Each of the particles has a mass between about 1 mg to about 5000 mg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Montserrat Guadalupe Vasquez Valdivieso, Neil Joseph Lant
  • Detergent composition
    Patent number: 10526565
    Abstract: A detergent composition, preferably a manual dishwashing detergent composition comprising a surfactant system and a fatty acid decarboxylase enzyme and method of manually washing soiled articles, comprising the step of: delivering a composition to a volume of water to form a wash liquor and immersing the soiled articles, in the wash liquor, or delivering a composition optionally in the presence of water, directly onto a soiled article, or onto a cleaning implement, and using the cleaning implement to clean the soiled article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Denis Alfred Gonzales
  • Cleaning composition
    Patent number: 10519401
    Abstract: A hand dishwashing cleaning composition comprising a surfactant system including an anionic surfactant and an amine oxide co-surfactant wherein the weight ratio of the surfactant system to the amine oxide is from about 1.5:1 to about 4.5:1 and wherein the composition further includes a protease and an enzyme stabilizer selected from the group consisting of: potassium salts of halides, sulfates, sulfites, carbonates, hydrogencarbonates, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, formates, acetates, propionates, citrates, maleates, tartarates, succinates, oxalates and lactates; a peptide aldehyde, peptide ketone, a hydrosulfite adduct thereof; a phenyl boronic acid, a derivative thereof and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frederik Clara P. Vandenberghe, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Neil Joseph Lant
  • Method of treating a fabric
    Patent number: 10513671
    Abstract: Method for treating a hydrophobically-modified textile with an aqueous solution of a nuclease enzyme, preferably a deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease enzyme, rinsing and drying the textile. Use of the finishing step for improved cleaning with an aqueous solution of a nuclease enzyme, preferably a deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Rebecca Louise Wood, Jeremie Robert Marcel Gummel
  • Cleaning composition with insoluble quaternized cellulose particles and non-anionic performance polymers
    Patent number: 10421932
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions that include an insoluble cationically-modified cellulose and a soluble performance polymer. Methods of making and using such cleaning compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Adam Simon Hayward
  • Cleaning composition with insoluble quaternized cellulose particles and an external structurant
    Patent number: 10421931
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions that include an insoluble cationically-modified cellulose and external structurant. Methods of making and using such cleaning compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Adam Simon Hayward
  • METHODS OF CLEANING
    Publication number: 20190264140
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions containing isoamylase enzymes capable of breaking alpha-1,6-glycoside linkages (glycogen-debranching enzymes), and mixtures thereof and further amylases, and methods of cleaning using the cleaning compositions and use of the cleaning compositions for removal of complex starch-containing stains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Neil Joseph LANT, Philip Frank SOUTER, Montserrat Guadalupe VASQUEZ VALDIVIESO
  • CLEANING COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20190264139
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions that include particular glycogen-debranching enzymes, second amylase and cleaning adjunct and methods of making such cleaning compositions and methods of using such cleaning compositions to provide starchy soil removal even from complex stains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Neil Joseph LANT, Philip Frank SOUTER, Montserrat Guadalupe VASQUEZ VALDIVIESO
  • Hand dishwashing liquid detergent composition
    Patent number: 10377974
    Abstract: A hand dishwashing detergent composition having a surfactant system a lipase at least 0.05% by weight of the composition of at least one monovalent, divalent or trivalent cation or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
  • Hand dishwashing liquid detergent composition
    Patent number: 10377973
    Abstract: A hand dishwashing liquid detergent composition having a surfactant system having an anionic surfactant and an amine oxide co-surfactant, a lipase, and preferably at least 0.05% by weight of the composition of at least one monovalent, divalent or trivalent cation or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers