Patents by Inventor Philip Frank

Philip Frank 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: 20210108156
    Abstract: A method of laundering fabrics includes: a) contacting a laundry detergent to water to form a wash liquor, wherein the laundry detergent includes detersive surfactant, wherein the wash liquor includes detersive surfactant at a concentration in the range of from 100 ppm to 2500 ppm; b) contacting fabric to the wash liquor, and washing the fabric in the wash liquor; c) after a period of time of at least 6 minutes from contacting the fabric to the wash liquor, introducing calcium cations into the wash liquor to form a calcium enriched wash liquor, wherein the calcium enriched wash liquor includes calcium cations at a concentration in the range of from 20 ppm to 400 ppm; d) washing the fabric in the calcium-enriched wash liquor for a period of time of at least 2 minutes; and e) removing the excess calcium-enriched wash liquor from the fabric, and rinsing the fabric in water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Laura BUENO ROMO, Carlos AMADOR ZAMARRENO, Anju Deepali Massey BROOKER, Libbi MOON, Philip Frank SOUTER, Eric San Jose ROBLES
  • Publication number: 20210071113
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric and home care products comprising one or more cold water proteases and processes for making and using such products. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and freshness. Such cold water proteases may be derived from parent enzymes, including BPN? subtilisin and subtilisin derived from Bacillus lentus, by substitution, insertion and/or deletion of one or more of the parent enzymes' amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Viktor Yuryevich ALEKSEYEV, Joshua Roy BASLER, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA, David A ESTELL, Ayrookaran J Poulose, James T KELLIS, Jr., Alexander PISARCHIK, Daniel TORRES-PAZMINO
  • Patent number: 10907117
    Abstract: A water-soluble unit dose article comprising a first water-soluble film and a second water-soluble film sealed together along a seal area, and optionally comprising a composition contained within the unit dose article, wherein the first water-soluble film and the second water-soluble film are chemically different to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MONOSOL, LLC
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Regine Labeque, Florence Catherine Courchay, Marc Rene Bert Renmans
  • Patent number: 10900000
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric and home care products comprising one or more cold water proteases and processes for making and using such products. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and freshness. Such cold water proteases may be derived from parent enzymes, including BPN? subtilisin and subtilisin derived from Bacillus lentus, by substitution, insertion and/or deletion of one or more of the parent enzymes' amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward, Viktor Yuryevich Alekseyev, Joshua Roy Basler, Luis Gustavo Cascao-Pereira, David A Estell, Ayrookaran J Poulose, James T Kellis, Jr., Alexander Pisarchik, Daniel Torres-Pazmino
  • Publication number: 20200369987
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition having a new protease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Lilia Maria BABE, Frits (NMN) GOEDEGEBUUR, Thijs KAPER, Sina PRICELIUS, Eva Maria PEREZ-PRAT VINUESA, Michelle JACKSON, Carly PICKERING, Philip Frank SOUTER
  • Patent number: 10844327
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising: a. at least 0.1 mg of active protease per gram of composition, wherein the protease is a variant of a protease that has at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1. wherein said variant comprise variations in one or more of the following positions: 32, 33, 48-54, 58-62, 94-107, 116, 123-133, 150, 152-156, 158-161, 164, 169, 175-186, 197, 198, 203-216 as compared with the protease in SEQ ID NO:1; and b. at least 0.05 mg of an active low temperature amylase per gram of composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Philip Frank Souter
  • Patent number: 10844328
    Abstract: Bleach-containing automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a new amylase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Philip Frank Souter, David John Tarbit, Torsten Bak Regueira, Bitten Plesner, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Anne Dorte Houg, Sofia Arnehed, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Carsten Andersen, Euan John Magennis
  • Publication number: 20200354877
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating fabrics by employing an automatic laundry washing machine to selectively add agitation-sensitive detersive actives into the wash liquor during a wash cycle when the mechanical agitation power applied to the fabrics by said washing machine is more than 12 W/kg, so as to improve or optimize the cleaning performance of such agitation-sensitive detersive actives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Carlos AMADOR ZAMARRENO, Anju Deepali Massey BROOKER, Laura BUENO ROMO, Libbi MOON, Despoina ZYMPELOUDI, Philip Frank SOUTER
  • Patent number: 10814442
    Abstract: A nut torqueing device for a recessed nut is disclosed. The nut torqueing device includes a nut engaging assembly to engage a nut in a recess. The nut engaging assembly includes: a nut engaging element to engage the nut in the recess, at least one stackable riser element to stackably connect to one of the nut engaging element and an adjacent stackable riser element therebelow, and a transmission engaging element to stackably connect to an uppermost one of the at least one stackable riser element. A ratchet interface within the nut engaging assembly allows rotation of the nut engaging element in only one direction, while other stackable elements rotationally interlock. A low profile transmission extends within a small space to transmit rotational power to the nut engaging assembly. The nut torqueing device is applicable with a terminal nut of an electric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald Alden VanSlyke, Murat Alver, Erkin Bayindir, Philip Frank Burnett, Curtis Maurice Hebert, Mesut Merev, August Elwood Pendergast, Paul August Quail
  • Patent number: 10808207
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a pH regulator system and a cleaning agent selected from the group consisting of cleaning surfactants, soil suspending polymers and mixtures thereof wherein the weight ratio of the pH regulator system to the cleaning agent is from 3:1 to 1:1 system and wherein the detergent composition includes from 0.01% to 5% by weight of the composition of a perfume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Alan Thomas Brooker, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick
  • Publication number: 20200299618
    Abstract: The present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically a subtilisin variant having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making such compositions and methods of treating surfaces, particularly fabric surfaces comprising contacting a surface with an aqueous liquor comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants and an adjunct material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan John MAGENNIS, Glenn Steven WARD, Neelam S. AMIN, Katherine AUGUSTYN, Joshua R. BASLER, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA, Katherine D. COLLIER, Edward M. CONCAR, David A. ESTELL, James T. KELLIS, Alexander PISARCHIK, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, Jian YAO
  • Publication number: 20200255771
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating fabrics by using an automatic laundry washing machine, in which unwetted fabrics are contacted with water that has been automatically pre-treated with a pre-treatment composition comprising at least one chelant before the wash cycle starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Anju Deepali Massey BROOKER, Carlos AMADOR ZAMARRENO, Laura BUENO ROMO, Philip Frank SOUTER, Andrew John SMITH
  • Publication number: 20200224125
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including from about 10% to about 60% by weight thereof of a builder system consisting of: i) a complexing agent selected from the group consisting of methyl glycine diacetic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, glutamic-N,N-diacetic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, iminodisuccinic acid, its salts and derivatives thereof, carboxy methyl inulin, its salts and derivatives thereof; and mixtures thereof; and ii) an itaconic/sulfonic polymer wherein the builder system comprises more than 40% by weight thereof of the complexing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Rachel Elizabeth MARTIN, Karen Margaret PRESTON, Philip Frank SOUTER
  • Patent number: 10711225
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition that includes a liquid phase, a lamellar liquid crystal phase, and a particulate phase, where the lamellar liquid phase and particulate phase are dispersed within the liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Philip Frank Souter, Alan Thomas Brooker, Dan Xu, Jeremie Robert Marcel Gummel
  • Patent number: 10683471
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including inorganic bleach, enzymes and a cleaning agent selected from the group consisting of cleaning surfactants, soil suspending polymers and mixtures thereof and from 0.01% to 5% by weight of the composition of a perfume and wherein the composition has a cleaning index of at least 60 and a care index of at least 4 as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Alan Thomas Brooker, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Lynn Michelle Campbell
  • Patent number: 10683474
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition including: an aldehyde-containing fragrance material, a ketone-containing fragrance material or a mixture thereof; an alcohol a non-amine neutralised linear alkylbenzene sulphonate; a hydroxyl-containing amine; and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Philip Frank Souter, Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Dan Xu, Jeremie Robert Marcel Gummel, Jean-Pol Boutique, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte
  • Patent number: 10662398
    Abstract: Low-pH automatic dishwashing detergent composition having a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25° C. of from about 5 to about 7.5 and comprising a protease selected from the group consisting of: (i) a metalloprotease; (ii) a cysteine protease, (iii) an aspartate protease, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Philip Frank Souter, Colin Ure, Craig Adam Wilkinson, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick
  • Patent number: 10655093
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition that includes: a liquid phase; and a solid cellulosic polymer, where the solid is dispersed within the liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Alan Thomas Brooker, Philip Frank Souter, Dan Xu, Jeremie Robert Marcel Gummel
  • Publication number: 20200040288
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pouches made from a combination of chemically different water-soluble films and optionally containing a composition (e.g. a household care composition or non-household care composition) that is at least partially enclosed by the water-soluble films in at least one compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Regine Labeque, Florence Catherine Courchay, Marc Rene Bert Renmans, David M. Lee, Steven G. Friedrich, Lee K. Yeung, Shinsuke Nii
  • Publication number: 20200032179
    Abstract: Described herein is a process of laundering fabrics using a household care composition, which delivers active agents onto fabric or hard surfaces while modifying the pH of the wash liquor to greater than 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Philip Frank Souter