Patents by Inventor Ronald A. Franklin
Ronald A. Franklin 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).
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Patent number: 8563616Abstract: Desensitizing drug products, methods of making desensitizing drug products, and methods of using desensitizing drug products including delivery of desensitizing drug products. In one embodiment, the desensitizing drug products are male genital desensitizers that comprise one or anesthetic agents and one or more melting point depressing agents.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Absorption Pharmaceuticals, LLCInventors: Ronald Franklin Gilbert, Anthony Cesare Capomacchia, Jody Helfend
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Patent number: 8518425Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant compositions comprising particulate antiperspirant active; capsules comprising a shear-sensitive shell which encapsulates perfume; and a carrier for the particulate antiperspirant active and capsules; wherein the capsules have a shell of cross-linked gelatin coacervate having a thickness of from 0.25 to 9 ?m and providing from 10 to 40% by weight of the capsules, a volume average particle diameter of from 25 to 70 ?m, a ratio of shell thickness to the average particle diameter in the range of from 1:5 to 1:120, and a Hysitron hardness in the range of from 1.5 MPa to 50 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Conopco Inc.Inventors: Catrin Sian Chan, Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Simon Anthony Johnson, Robert McKeown
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Patent number: 8507561Abstract: Desensitizing drug products, methods of making desensitizing drug products, and methods of using desensitizing drug products including delivery of desensitizing drug products. In one embodiment, the desensitizing drug products are male genital desensitizers that comprise one or anesthetic agents and one or more melting point depressing agents.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Absorption Pharmaceuticals, LLCInventors: Ronald Franklin Gilbert, Anthony Cesare Capomacchia, Jody Helfend
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Patent number: 8349339Abstract: Segregation of antiperspirant actives suspended in anhydrous compositions employing ester oils or non-volatile silicone oils having a refractive index of at least 1.5, preferably together with an alcohol oil, gelled with a fibre-forming amide gellant can be inhibited by including a segregation inhibitor, especially an arylene-alkylene block copolymer, such as a tri-block copolymer e.g. a styrene/ethylenebutylene/styrene copolymer or a styrene/butylene copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Conopco Inc.Inventors: Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Publication number: 20120121677Abstract: An antiperspirant or deodorant composition comprising i) an antiperspirant or deodorant active, ii) a liquid carrier for the antiperspirant or deodorant active, and iii) fragrance in which the fragrance comprises a mixture of first and second fragrances, respectively (iiia) and (iiib), the first fragrance (iiia) being free from encapsulation and comprising fragrance components having a boiling point of higher than 250° C. at 1 bar pressure in a weight proportion of greater than 65% and the second fragrance (iiib) being encapsulated in a water-insoluble shear-sensitive encapsulating material and comprising fragrance components having a boiling point of greater than 250° C. at 1 bar pressure in a weight proportion of less than 65%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventor: Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Publication number: 20120076839Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant compositions containing an encapsulated fragrance, in which the encapsulate shell comprises an aminoplast resin, and preferably a melamine/formaldehyde resin. The encapsulates have a weight average particle diameter in the range of 25 to 60 ?m, a shell having a measured thickness in the range of from 1 to 10 ?m and an average in the range of from 5 to 8 ?m, a ratio of the shell thickness to the average particle diameter in the range of from 1:5 to 1:10 and a Hysitron hardness in the range of from 2 MPa to 50 MPa, particularly 15 to 25 MPa, enabling them do be advantageously employed in the anhydrous antiperspirant compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Catrin Sian Chan, Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Simon Anthony Johnson, Robert McKeown
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Patent number: 7857267Abstract: A mounting assembly is provided for mounting equipment on a frame including a front pair of vertical rails and a back pair of vertical rails. The mounting assembly includes a bracket for attaching a front side of the equipment to one of the front rails and a hinge for attaching a back side of the equipment to one of the back rails.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventor: Ronald Franklin Watts
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Patent number: 7744857Abstract: Antiperspirant compositions containing suspended antiperspirant actives in a water-immiscible carrier leave visible deposits on skin or clothing unless the actives are masked. The carrier mixture in compositions herein comprise an alkylsiloxane which is substituted by a group R4 of formula —CH2—C(Ph) (RB)—R5-Ph in which RB represents H or methyl and R5 represents an alkylene group containing 0 to 3 carbons, and in which the proportion of aryl carbon atoms is at least 60% of all carbon atoms in the molecule. Preferably, the substituent comprises diphenylethyl. Optionally, the siloxane can be capped by the residue of a substituted vinyl group other than R4 or an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Denise Marie Beachy, Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Publication number: 20100104613Abstract: It is desirable for antiperspirant or deodorant roll-on compositions to be able to deliver fragrance over an extended period of time after application, but previously contemplated encapsulates were based on starch or similar water-soluble or dispersible shell materials, rendering them ineffective in aqueous emulsions. Capsules of fragrances in cross-linked coacervated gelatin shells satisfying defined particle size, shell thickness and hardness criteria enable roll-on compositions to be incorporated into aqueous antiperspirant or deodorant compositions encapsulated fragrance that can be released after the composition has been topically applied to skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVERInventors: Catrin Sian Chan, Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Simon Anthony Johnson, Robert McKeown
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Publication number: 20100104612Abstract: Fragrance leaches rapidly from capsules having shells made from cross linked gelatin into volatile silicone oils. Unfortunately such oils are much favoured for anhydrous antiperspirant compositions. The rate and extent of leaching can be ameliorated greatly or nearly halted by employing as carrier oil, an ester oil or an ether oil, even in the presence of a significant fraction of volatile silicone oil. Consequently, the capability of antiperspirant compositions to generate detectable fragrance over an extended period after application to the skin is improved by employing ester or ether oil as all or part of the carrier liquid in which the antiperspirant is suspended.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Louise Jannette Roberts
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Publication number: 20100104611Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant compositions comprising particulate antiperspirant active; capsules comprising a shear-sensitive shell which encapsulates perfume; and a carrier for the particulate antiperspirant active and capsules; wherein the capsules have a shell of cross-linked gelatin coacervate having a thickness of from 0.25 to 9 ?m and providing from 10 to 40% by weight of the capsules, a volume average particle diameter of from 25 to 70 ?m, a ratio of shell thickness to the average particle diameter in the range of from 1:5 to 1:120, and a Hysitron hardness in the range of from 1.5 MPa to 50 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVERInventors: Catrin Sian Chan, Martin Peter Cropper, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Simon Anthony Johnson, Robert McKeown
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Patent number: 7504091Abstract: antiperspirant compositions comprise an antiperspirant active and a carrier oil in which the carrier oil comprises an aromatic ester oil obeying the general formula: R1—CO2—X—Y—R2 in which R1 and R2 each represent a phenyl group, X represents an alkylene group containing from 2 to 4 carbons including at least one pendant alkyl group and Y represents a bond, or an ether or ester linkage.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Publication number: 20080310083Abstract: A mounting assembly is provided for mounting equipment on a frame including a front pair of vertical rails and a back pair of vertical rails. The mounting assembly includes a bracket for attaching a front side of the equipment to one of the front rails and a hinge for attaching a back side of the equipment to one of the back rails.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventor: Ronald Franklin Watts
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Publication number: 20080267895Abstract: An anhydrous antiperspirant composition comprising from 2 to 25% by weight of solubilised aluminium-containing antiperspirant active; from 20 to 50% by weight of ethanol and from 20 to 55% by weight of one or more solubiliser oils selected from the group consisting of: (i) a branched-chain fatty alcohol having from 16 to 24 carbon atoms; (ii) a benzoate ester of a short chain (C2-C6) alcohol substituted with a phenyl, phenoxy or benzoyloxy group; (iii) a benzoate ester of a straight-chain alcohol of from 6 to 8 carbon atoms; and (iv) a propoxylated linear fatty alcohol having a degree of propoxylation of from 2 to 4 and a fatty alcohol chain length of from 10 to 18 carbon atoms; wherein the ratio of antiperspirant active to ethanol and of antiperspirant active to the solubiliser oil is from 1:10 to 1:1 by weight and the ratio of ethanol to oil is from 1:2 to 2:1 by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Joyce Kench, Joanne Elizabeth Stockton
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Publication number: 20080187496Abstract: An antiperspirant aerosol product comprising an aqueous solution of antiperspirant active emulsified in an oily continuous phase and packaged in a dispensing device comprising an aluminium can body internally lacquered with PAM and a mounting cup lacquered on its bottom side with EPOXY-PHENOLIC-Vinyl lacquer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2005Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventors: Karen Elizabeth Forbes, Kiven Ronald Franklin, Thomas Edward Shearmur
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Publication number: 20080152608Abstract: Antiperspirant stick compositions in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion comprising a dispersed aqueous solution of an astringent antiperspirant salt and a continuous oil phase solidified by a hydrocarbon wax comprising an intermediate molecular weight polyethylene wax, optionally together with a further hydrocarbon wax, exhibit desirable aesthetic properties, including low drag/good glide and low visible deposits at a preferred stick hardness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Martin Peter Cropper, James Michael Bianchi, Bruce Steven Emslie, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Louise Jannette Roberts, Joanne Elizabeth Stockton
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Patent number: 7347990Abstract: Many cosmetic stick compositions containing a continuous phase of a water-immiscible cosmetic oil structured by a fibre-forming amido structurant and an active cosmetic ingredient either exhibit poor physical stability when formed, or cannot be made readily using conventional processes for making stick compositions. The problem can be ameliorated or overcome by the use of a combination of amido structurants comprising in class (i) an N-acylaminoacid amide in which the N-acyl substituent has the formula —CO—RX in which RX represents a branched C6 to C11 alkyl group in combination with a further amido structurant, (class (ii), including a polyamido-substituted cyclohexane, an amido derivative of di or tricarboxylic acids or an hydroxystearamide and particularly employing an N-acylaminoacid amide in which the N-acyl substituent contains a linear alkyl group, or a cyclodipeptide.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Steven Emslie, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Martin Peter Cropper
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Patent number: 7347992Abstract: Anhydrous cosmetic antiperspirant stick compositions containing a continuous phase of a water-immiscible cosmetic oil structured by a fibre-forming amido structurant can exhibit undesirable sensory properties when 12-hydroxy-stearic acid is employed as primary gellant and the preparation of sick compositions suffers from sever processing difficulties when certain of such amido structurants are employed as primary gellant. Stick compositions having desirable sensory properties can be made by employing as primary gellant, a combination of amido structurants comprising (i) an N-acylaminoacid amide in which the N-acyl substituent has the formula —CO—RX in which RX represents a branched C6 to C11 alkyl group and (ii) an N-acylaminoacid amide in which the N-acyl substituent contains a linear alkyl group and the cosmetic carrier oil comprising from 25 to 50% by weight of a water-immiscible monohydric alcohol that is liquid at 20° C. and a boiling point of higher than 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conpco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Jason Richard Williams
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Patent number: 7347991Abstract: Anhydrous cosmetic stick compositions containing a continuous phase of a water-immiscible cosmetic oil structured by a fibre-forming amido structurant and containing a suspended particulate antiperspirant or deodorant can suffer from either somewhat poor physical stability when formed, or preparative difficulties using conventional processes for making stick compositions or opaqueness. The problem can be ameliorated or overcome by the use of a combination of amido structurants comprising (i) an N-acylaminoacid amide in which the N-acyl substituent has the formula —CO—RX in which RX represents a branched C6 to C11 alkyl group in combination with a further amido structurant (ii), selected from (iia) N-acylaminoacid amides other than (i), (iib) cyclodipeptides and (iic) a 1,2-di amido-substituted cyclohexane.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Steven Emslie, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Neil Robert Fletcher
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Patent number: 7332153Abstract: Cosmetic formulations containing a cosmetic active and a continuous phase comprising a water-immiscible liquid carrier, such as, amongst other materials, silicone oils, branched aliphatic alcohols or liquid aromatic/aliphatic esters that is structured by a cyclodipeptide derivative having the general formula in which RA represents a carbocyclic or heterocyclic group containing not more than 2 rings, other than unsubstituted cyclohexyl.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2003Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Shameem Bhatia, Jan van Esch, Colette Marie Fairclough, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Paul Hugh Findlay, Nicholas Webb, Michael Stephen White