Patents by Inventor Paul Dennis Trokhan

Paul Dennis Trokhan 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).

  • Absorbent and Compressible Fibrous Structures
    Publication number: 20180105994
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Fibrous Structures Exhibiting Improved Reopenability
    Publication number: 20180105998
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Array of inter-connected palletized products
    Patent number: 9926120
    Abstract: A collection of stackable articles is disclosed. Each stackable article of the collection of stackable articles has a bottom, at least one sidewall, and a top. The collection of stackable articles comprises a supporting medium, a first slip sheet disposed upon a surface of the supporting medium, and a first plurality of the stackable articles arranged in a first layer upon the first slip sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Dan Dapper, Gustav André Mellin, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Process for making fibrous structures
    Patent number: 9926648
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Stackable and Stacked Absorbent Paper Product
    Publication number: 20170325640
    Abstract: An absorbent paper product. The absorbent paper product can be in a non-circular shape when unfolded and flattened, and folded in a stackable, non-planar form for dispensing. The absorbent paper product can be non-circular in shape when unfolded and flattened, and can be a tessellating shape or a non-tessellating shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Gustav Andre Mellin, Devin William Baldridge, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Layered Fibrous Structures with Different Common Intensive Properties
    Publication number: 20170282524
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing two or more layers that exhibit different common intensive properties, sanitary tissue products employing such layered, optionally dispersible fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures Different Fibrous Elements
    Publication number: 20170282520
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit different physical characteristics, such as different average diameters as measured by the Average Diameter Test Method described herein, different surface characteristics, different lengths, different sources (naturally occurring versus non-naturally occurring and/or spun versus non-spun), sanitary tissue products employing such layered fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O’Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures with Improved Tewl Properties
    Publication number: 20170282525
    Abstract: Fibrous structures and more particularly to fibrous structures that exhibit improved TEWL properties, for example lower TEWL % Difference Values as measured according to the TEWL Test Method described herein, compared to known fibrous structures, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and method for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures Different Fibrous Elements
    Publication number: 20170282521
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit different physical characteristics, such as different lengths, sanitary tissue products employing same, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures with Improved Surface Properties
    Publication number: 20170282519
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit improved surface properties, for example lower Force Variability Values and lower Force to Drag Values as measured by the Glide on Skin Test Method described herein, compared to known fibrous structures, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and method for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures Different Fibrous Elements
    Publication number: 20170284025
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit different physical characteristics, such as different average diameters as measured by the Average Diameter Test Method described herein, different surface characteristics, different lengths, different sources (naturally occurring versus non-naturally occurring and/or spun versus non-spun), sanitary tissue products employing such layered, optionally dispersible fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Layered Fibrous Structures with Inter-Layer Voids
    Publication number: 20170282487
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit inter-layer voids between two or more layers within the fibrous structures, sanitary tissue products employing such layered, optionally dispersible fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine OBrien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures with Improved Surface Properties
    Publication number: 20170282518
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit improved surface properties, for example lower Force to Drag Values as measured by the Glide on Skin Test Method described herein, compared to known fibrous structures, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and method for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O’Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Layered Fibrous Structures with Different Planar Layers
    Publication number: 20170282523
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing two or more layers that exhibit different planar characteristics, sanitary tissue products employing such layered, optionally dispersible fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures with Improved Surface Properties
    Publication number: 20170282517
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit improved surface properties, for example lower Force Variability Values as measured by the Glide on Skin Test Method described herein, compared to known fibrous structures, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and method for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous Structures Different Fibrous Elements
    Publication number: 20170282522
    Abstract: Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit different physical characteristics, such as different average diameters as measured by the Average Diameter Test Method described herein, different surface characteristics, different lengths, different sources (naturally occurring versus non-naturally occurring and/or spun versus non-spun), sanitary tissue products employing such layered, dispersible fibrous structures, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Michael Gomer Stelljes, John Gerhard Michael, Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney, Joshua Thomas Fung, Paul Arlen Forshey, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
  • Fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 9714484
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that at least 25% and/or at least 43% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structures exists in pores of radii of from 91 ?m to 140 ?m, and to methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Douglas Jay Barkey, Christopher Michael Young, Michael Donald Suer
  • ARRAY OF INTER-CONNECTED PALLETIZED PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20170158401
    Abstract: A collection of stackable articles is disclosed. Each stackable article of the collection of stackable articles has a bottom, at least one sidewall, and a top. The collection of stackable articles comprises a supporting medium, a first slip sheet disposed upon a surface of the supporting medium, and a first plurality of the stackable articles arranged in a first layer upon the first slip sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Dan DAPPER, Gustav André MELLIN, Paul Dennis TROKHAN
  • Active containing fibrous structures with multiple regions
    Patent number: 9624458
    Abstract: A fibrous structure including filaments wherein the filaments comprise one or more filament-forming materials and one or more active agents that are releasable from the filament when exposed to conditions of intended use, the fibrous structure further having at least three regions. Methods of treating fabrics with a fibrous structure are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Gregory Charles Gordon, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Array of inter-connected palletized products
    Patent number: 9598213
    Abstract: A collection of articles is disclosed. Each article can be generally provided as a parallelepiped container having a bottom, sidewalls, and a top. The collection of articles comprises a supporting medium, a first slip sheet disposed upon a surface of the supporting medium, and a first plurality of the parallelepiped containers arranged in a first layer upon the first slip sheet. Each parallelepiped container of the first plurality of parallelepiped containers is disposed adjacent each other to define a first space therebetween. A first portion of the first sidewall of the first parallelepiped container disposed within the first space is bonded to a first portion of the first sidewall of the second parallelepiped container disposed within the first space when the first parallelepiped container and the second parallelepiped container are placed into contacting engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Dan Dapper, Gustav André Mellin, Paul Dennis Trokhan