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).

  • Automatic Dishwashing Detergent Composition
    Publication number: 20180030382
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including: i) a protease wherein the protease is a variant of a parent protease having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and the variant protease has at least 90% identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 wherein the protease comprises at least one aspartic acid residue in the active site loop region from position 95 to 103 (BPN? numbering); and ii) greater than 5% of a crystal growth inhibitor, preferably hydroxyethylidine 1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Eva Maria Perez-Prat Vinuesa, Michelle Jackson, David John Tarbit
  • Automatic Dishwashing Detergent Composition
    Publication number: 20180030386
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a protease wherein the protease is a variant of a parent protease having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and the variant protease has at least 90% identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 wherein the protease includes at least one glutamic acid residue in the active site loop region from position 95 to 103 (BPN? numbering).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: David John Tarbit, Michelle Jackson, Eva Maria Perez-Prat Vinuesa, Philip Frank Souter
  • USE OF A FIRST FILM AND A SECOND FILM TO IMPROVE SEAL STRENGTH OF A WATER-SOLUBLE
    Publication number: 20180002647
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a first water-soluble film and a second water-soluble film to make a unit dose article and the use of said unit dose article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Regine Labeque, Florence Catherine Courchay, Marc Rene Bert Renmans
  • Compositions and methods comprising serine protease variants
    Patent number: 9856466
    Abstract: The present invention provides serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides compositions comprising these serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants. In some embodiments, the present invention provides cleaning compositions comprising at least one of these serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: DANISCO US INC.
    Inventors: Neelam S. Amin, Katherine Augustyn, Joshua R. Basler, Luis G. Cascao-Pereira, Katherine D. Collier, Edward M. Concar, David A. Estell, James T. Kellis, Jr., Euan John Magennis, Alexander Pisarchik, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward, Jian Yao
  • WATER-SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLES MADE FROM A COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FILMS
    Publication number: 20170369822
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to water-soluble unit dose articles made from a combination of chemically different water-soluble films and optionally containing compositions that are at least partially enclosed by the water-soluble films in at least one compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    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
  • USE OF A WATER-SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLE TO IMPROVE THE USER DOSING EXPERIENCE
    Publication number: 20170369217
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of water-soluble unit dose article to improve the user dosing experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Regine Labeque, Florence Catherine Courchay, Marc Rene Bert Renmans
  • WATER-SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLES MADE FROM A COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FILMS
    Publication number: 20170369823
    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: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    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
  • Head-mounted display device with protective visor
    Patent number: 9851564
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a head fitting by which the display device can be worn on the head of a user, and a visor assembly mounted to the head fitting. The visor assembly includes a plurality of display elements arranged to be aligned with the eyes of the user, a plurality of sensors, and a protective enclosure that encloses the display elements and the sensors. The protective enclosure may include an upper portion aligned with the sensors and a lower portion aligned with the display elements. The upper portion may be substantially opaque to visible light and transparent to infrared light. The lower portion may have a variable tinting scheme in which at least some of the lower portion of the enclosure is transparent to visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Riccomini, Philip Frank, Errol Mark Tazbaz, Andriy Pletenetskyy
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170362546
    Abstract: An 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, the composition includes a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, James Elliot GOODWIN, Stefano SCIALLA, Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170362538
    Abstract: An 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, the composition including an esterified alkyl alkoxylated surfactant of general formula (I) wherein R is a branched or unbranched alkyl radical having 8 to 16 carbon atoms; R3, R1 independently of one another, are hydrogen or a branched or unbranched alkyl radical having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R2 is an unbranched alkyl radical having 5 to 17 carbon atoms; 1, n independently of one another, are a number from 1 to 5 and m is a number from 13 to 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Philip Frank SOUTER
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170362547
    Abstract: A 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 including a mixture of metalloproteases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan Campbell STRACHAN
  • CLEANING POUCH
    Publication number: 20170362550
    Abstract: Pouch including a cleaning composition, the pouch includes a compartment housing a liquid composition, the liquid composition includes a liquid soil-suspension polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Elena ALDA RODRIGUEZ, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Nigel Patrick SOMERVILLE ROBERTS, Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan Campbell STRACHAN
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170362545
    Abstract: An 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, the composition includes a sulfonated polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, James Elliot GOODWIN, Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD
  • WATER-SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLES MADE FROM A COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FILMS AND CONTAINING HOUSEHOLD CARE COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20170355935
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to water-soluble unit dose articles made from a combination of chemically different water-soluble films and containing household care compositions that are at least partially enclosed by the water-soluble films in at least one compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Florence Catherine COURCHAY, Regine LABEQUE, Philip Frank SOUTER, Robby Renilde François KEULEERS, Marc Rene Bert RENMANS
  • PROCESS OF WASHING FABRICS
    Publication number: 20170355936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for washing fabrics in the drum of an automatic washing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Robby Renilde Francois KEULEERS, Regine LABEQUE, Florence Catherine COURCHAY, Marc Rene Bert RENMANS
  • LAUNDRY UNIT DOSE ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20170349864
    Abstract: Methods of washing laundry in an automatic laundry machine using a multicompartment water-soluble unit dose article having a water-soluble film and a liquid laundry detergent composition, wherein the unit dose article has a height, a width and a length, wherein the length is the longest dimension and the height is the smallest dimension, and wherein the ratio of the maximum length to the maximum height is between about 2:1 and about 10:1, wherein the unit does article comprises a gas, and wherein the ratio of the volume of said gas to the volume of the liquid laundry detergent composition is between about 1:25 and about 1:10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Thomas BROOKER, Philip Frank SOUTER, Andrew John SMITH, Jose David BAEZ CHAVEZ
  • LAUNDRY UNIT DOSE ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20170349863
    Abstract: Methods of washing laundry in an automatic laundry washing machine using multicompartment water-soluble unit dose articles having a water-soluble film and a liquid laundry detergent composition, wherein at least one compartment of the unit dose article has the liquid laundry detergent composition and wherein the unit dose has a height, a width and a length, wherein; the maximum length is between about 2 and about 5 cm; the maximum width is between about 2 and about 5 cm; and the maximum height is between about 3 and about 5 cm; and wherein the volume of the liquid laundry detergent composition within the water-soluble unit dose is between about 10 and about 20 ml.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Thomas BROOKER, Philip Frank SOUTER, Andrew John SMITH, Jose David BAEZ CHAVEZ
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170321159
    Abstract: Phosphate-free automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a new amylase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    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
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170321158
    Abstract: Bleach-containing automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a new amylase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    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
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170321157
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including an organic complexing agent and a new protease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Michelle JACKSON, Eva Maria PEREZ-PRAT VINUESA, David John TARBIT, Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan John MAGENNIS, David Edward WILDES, Jeffrey W. MUNOS, Neelam S. AMIN, David L. MARQUEZ, Victoria HUANG, Geetha VEERAMUTHU, Rei OTSUKA