Patents by Inventor Robert Edward Shumate

Robert Edward Shumate 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: 20230174895
    Abstract: Glycerol acetal sulfate and sulfonates, which may be used in consumer products to provide surfactant properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Rebecca Ann Langevin, Randall Thomas Reilman, Phillip Kyle Vinson, John August Wos, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Publication number: 20220364021
    Abstract: A detergent composition can include a cleaning composition including: (a) linear alkyl benzene sulphonate surfactant; (b) alkyl ethoxylated sulphate surfactant; and (c) alkoxylated polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Robert SIVIK, Kristine Lynn FLITER, Robert Edward Shumate, Stephen Anthony Derose, Gang Si, Michael McDonnell, Sophia Rose Ebert, Bjoern Ludolph
  • Publication number: 20220356416
    Abstract: A cleaning composition can include: (a) linear alkyl benzene sulphonate surfactant; (b) alkyl ethoxylated sulphate surfactant; and (c) alkoxylated polymer, wherein the alkoxylated polymer includes a core structure selected from sugar alcohol including at least 4 hydroxy moieties, wherein at least one of the hydroxy moieties of the core structure is modified with an alkylene oxide moiety selected from ethylene oxide (EO), propylene oxide (PO), butylene oxide (BO) and mixtures thereof, and wherein at least one of the hydroxy moieties derived from the alkylene oxide moiety is further substituted with an amino functional group, wherein the weight ratio of non-soap surfactant to polymer is greater than 4.0:1, and wherein the weight ratio of linear alkyl benzene sulphonate surfactant to alkyl ethoxylated sulphate surfactant is less than 2.0:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Robert SIVIK, Kristine Lynn Fliter, Robert Edward Shumate, Stephen Anthony DeRose, Gang Si, Michael McDonnell, Bjoern Ludolph, Sophia Rosa Ebert
  • Patent number: 9216945
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a 2-substituted-1,4-benzenediamine by nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Michael Gardlik, Garry Steven Garrett, Bryan Patrick Murphy, Guiru Zhang, Robert Edward Shumate, James S. Anderson
  • Patent number: 8748646
    Abstract: The present application relates to molecules comprising one or more beta-hydroxyamine moieties, for example, aminosilicones and compositions such as consumer products comprising such molecules, as well as processes for making and using such molecules and such compositions. The aforementioned process is safer, more efficient and thus more economical. Thus, the aforementioned moleculers may be more widely used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bernard William Kluesener, Robert Edward Shumate, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kenneth Edward Yelm
  • Publication number: 20140145374
    Abstract: Methods of molding polymer-hydroxylated lipid compositions comprising intimate admixtures of thermoplastic polymers and hydroxylated lipids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gene Michael ALTONEN, John Moncrief LAYMAN, Andrew Eric NELTNER, Isao NODA, Eric Bryan BOND, William Maxwell ALLEN, Michael Matthew SATKOWSKI, Stephen Anthony DeROSE, Robert Edward SHUMATE
  • Publication number: 20140142233
    Abstract: Polymer-hydroxylated lipid compositions comprising intimate admixtures of thermoplastic polymer and hydroxylated lipid. Methods of making and using polymer-hydroxylated lipid compositions, and non-migrating articles made therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Moncrief LAYMAN, Andrew Eric NELTNER, Isao NODA, Eric Bryan BOND, William Maxwell ALLEN, Jr., Michael Matthew SATKOWSKI, Stephen Anthony DeROSE, Robert Edward SHUMATE
  • Publication number: 20140081049
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a 2-substituted-1,4-benzenediamine by nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Michael GARDLIK, Garry Steven GARRETT, Bryan Patrick MURPHY, Guiru ZHANG, Robert Edward SHUMATE, James S. ANDERSON
  • Patent number: 8618326
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a 2-substituted-1,4-benzenediamine by nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Michael Gardlik, Garry Steven Garrett, Bryan Patrick Murphy, Guiru Zhang, Robert Edward Shumate, James S. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20120323032
    Abstract: The present application relates to molecules comprising one or more beta-hydroxyamine moieties, for example, aminosilicones and compositions such as consumer products comprising such molecules, as well as processes for making and using such molecules and such compositions. The aforementioned process is safer, more efficient and thus more economical. Thus, the aforementioned moleculers may be more widely used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Bernard William KLUESENER, Robert Edward Shumate, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kenneth Edward Yelm
  • Patent number: 8299308
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Patent number: 8232431
    Abstract: A surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactant derivatives of isomers of acyclic detergent alcohol having 11, 16, or 21 carbon atoms and two, three, four or five methyl or ethyl branches or mixtures thereof wherein the surfactant derivatives are selected from the group consisting of cationic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, amine oxide surfactants, alkylpolyglycoside surfactants, soaps, fatty acids, di-long-chain alkyl cationic surfactants and mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Randall Thomas Reilman, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate, Stephanie Ann Urbin
  • Patent number: 8232432
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Publication number: 20120078016
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a 2-substituted-1,4-benzenediamine by nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: John Michael GARDLIK, Garry Steven Garrett, Bryan Patrick Murphy, Guiru Zhang, Robert Edward Shumate, James S. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20120010423
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Publication number: 20120010432
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Patent number: 8044249
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Patent number: 7994369
    Abstract: Acyclic polyaldehydes and polyalcohols having 11, 16 or 21 carbon atoms and comprising at least two aldehyde or hydroxyl alcohol groups, at least three branches, and three or less carbon-carbon double bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate
  • Publication number: 20110034363
    Abstract: A surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactant derivatives of isomers of acyclic detergent alcohol having 11, 16, or 21 carbon atoms and two, three, four or five methyl or ethyl branches or mixtures thereof wherein the surfactant derivatives are selected from the group consisting of cationic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, amine oxide surfactants, alkylpolyglycoside surfactants, soaps, fatty acids, di-long-chain alkyl cationic surfactants and mixtures
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Nathan Price, Randall Thomas Reilman, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate, Stephanie Ann Urbin
  • Publication number: 20100137649
    Abstract: A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Robert Edward Shumate