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: 6361766Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active is suspended in a carrier fluid can result in significant visible deposits when applied to skin or when transferred onto clothing. Anhydrous antiperspirant suspension sticks which exhibit very low visible deposits are obtainable by employing a carrier fluid in which at least 45% and preferably at least 60% of its weight comprises an oxygen-containing emollient oil having a refractive index of at least 1.465, in conjunction with structurant comprises a wax or a non-polymeric fiber-forming gellant, excluding certain gellants or gellant combinations. Preferred emollient oils include alkyl benzoates and alkylphenylsiloxanes. The waxes can even comprise fatty alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2001Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20020034481Abstract: Anhydrous antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active is suspended in a carrier fluid can result in significant visible deposits when applied to skin or when transferred onto clothing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: James Michael Bianchi, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Bruce Howard Glickman, Graham Andrew Turner
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Publication number: 20010055574Abstract: A cosmetic composition is a structured emulsion of a continuous phase containing water-immiscible liquid carrier plus a structurant, and a disperse phase which is a solution of antiperspirant active in a more polar, probably aqueous, solvent. The structurant is a material which forms a network of fibers in the continuous phase, thereby gelling it. The structurant has an enthalpy of gelation in the carrier liquid or a test liquid with a magnitude of at least 30 kJ/mole. This minimum enthalpy of gelation facilitates processing at conveniently accessible temperatures and promotes stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2000Publication date: December 27, 2001Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Andrew Hopkinson
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Publication number: 20010033851Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula 1Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, David Terence Parrott, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe, Michael Stephen White
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Patent number: 6287544Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula wherein each Z is independently hydrogen or an acyl group of the formula where R denotes a hydrocarbyl group containing from 4 to 22 carbon atoms. Not more than half of the Z groups are hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, Isabelle Claire Esser, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe
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Publication number: 20010018045Abstract: Soft solid antiperspirant formulations in which a particulate antiperspirant active material is suspended in a continuous phase containing a water-immiscible liquid which is structured by specified proportions of an organic polymeric thickener and a second structurant selected from fibre-forming structurants and waxes (often other than fatty alcohols) or a mixture of both.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: August 30, 2001Inventors: Beng Sim Chuah, Sarah Jane Clare, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Gordon Charles Hough, Graham Andrew Turner
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Patent number: 6251377Abstract: A cosmetic composition, preferably an antiperspirant stick, has a carrier liquid which is almost exclusively silicone oil, structured with lanosterol. Instability is avoided by nearly complete exclusion or complete exclusion of silicon-free organic liquids.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Ronald Franklin
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Patent number: 6248312Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula wherein each Z is independently hydrogen or an acyl group of the formula where R denotes a hydrocarbyl group containing from 4 to 22 carbon atoms. Not more than half of the Z groups are hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, David Terence Parrott, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe, Michael Stephen White
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Patent number: 6241976Abstract: An antiperspirant composition is a structured emulsion of a continuous phase containing water-immiscible liquid carrier plus a structurant, and a disperse phase which is a solution of antiperspirant active in water or a mixture of water and water-soluble solvent. The structurant is a fully or partially esterified saccharide. The compositions give low visible residue when applied to skin or to clothing.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Isabelle Claire Esser, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Lynda Grainger, Adam Jan Kowalski, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe
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Patent number: 6231841Abstract: Antiperspirant compositions herein comprise an antiperspirant active, a carrier and a structurant for the carrier which comprises an effective concentration of a combination of at least one sterol and at least one sterol ester, to form a solid or a soft solid. The compositions can be anhydrous and in the form of a suspension of antiperspirant active, or can comprise aqueous emulsions. A particularly suitable sterol comprises &bgr; sitosterol and a particularly preferred sterol ester comprises oryzanol. Preferably the mole ratio of sterol to sterol ester is in the range of 3:1 to 1:2.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Lynda Grainger, Adam Jan Kowalski
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Patent number: 6088204Abstract: A magnetoresistive sensor for use as the read sensor in magnetic recording disk drives uses a permalloy (approximate composition of Ni.sub.81,Fe.sub.19) sensor layer with a magnetoresistance coefficient significantly greater than prior art permalloy sensor layers for a range of permalloy film thicknesses. The permalloy film is deposited on a substrate, such as alumina, that is essentially non-reactive with permalloy at elevated temperatures while the substrate is heated. The permalloy films have a zero or slightly negative magnetostriction, low easy and hard axis coercivities, and a low anisotropy field. At very small film thicknesses the permalloy films formed with substrate heating exhibit an even greater percentage increase in magnetoresistance coefficient than at higher film thicknesses, thereby allowing the films to function in magnetic recording disk drive heads for use at very high linear recording densities.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robin Frederick Charles Farrow, Ronald Franklin Marks, Daniele Mauri, Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin
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Patent number: 6015632Abstract: A magnetoresistive sensor based on a giant magnetoresistance multilayer uses a multilayer structure formed of alternating layers or stripes of ferromagnetic and nonferromagnetic metal that are spontaneously formed or "self-assembled" laterally on a special template layer. The template layer is a crystalline structure that has a two-fold uniaxial surface, i.e., one that is structurally invariant for a rotation by 180 degrees (and only 180 degrees) about an axis (the symmetry axis) perpendicular to the surface plane. Such a template layer is the (110) surface plane of body-centered-cubic Mo. The alternating stripes of ferromagnetic metal (such as Co or Fe) and nonferromagnetic metal (such as Ag) become spontaneously arranged laterally on the template layer during co-deposition, such as during ultrahigh vaccum evaporation, and are aligned so that the direction of composition modulation, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Darden Chambliss, Robin Frederick Charles Farrow, Ronald Franklin Marks, Eric Dean Tober
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Patent number: 5858455Abstract: A method for forming a magnetoresistive sensor results in the spontaneous formation or "self-assembly" of a giant magnetoresistance multilayer structure of alternating stripes of ferromagnetic and nonferromagnetic metal that are stacked laterally on a special template layer. The template layer is a crystalline structure that has a two-fold uniaxial surface, i.e., one that is structurally invariant for a rotation by 180 degrees (and only 180 degrees) about an axis (the symmetry axis) perpendicular to the surface plane. Such a template layer is the (110) surface plane of body-centered-cubic Mo. The alternating stripes of ferromagnetic metal (such as Co or Fe) and nonferromagnetic metal (such as Ag) become spontaneously arranged laterally on the template layer during co-deposition, such as during ultrahigh vaccum evaporation, and are aligned so that the direction of compostion modulation, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Darden Chambliss, Robin Frederick Charles Farrow, Ronald Franklin Marks, Eric Dean Tober
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Patent number: 5819061Abstract: In a partitioned process environment, storage is reassigned by a shuffle of guest absolute address spaces which may be reassigned among partitions without restriction as to the position of the space to be reassigned relative to the position of the partition to which it is to be assigned. The reassignment is accomplished by adjusting the origin addresses by an adjustment value corresponding to the size of the address space of an additional memory area to be added to a selected partition. Furthermore, the size of the address space of the selected partition is increased by the same adjustment value. The system employs duplicated origin and limit arrays which are used to convert from a partition (guest) absolute address to a system (host) absolute address and uses duplicated configuration arrays by which the system absolute addresses are converted to physical memory addresses.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1994Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven Gardner Glassen, Robert Stanley Capowski, Neal Taylor Christensen, Thomas Oscar Curlee, III, Ronald Franklin Hill, Moon Ju Kim, Matthew Anthony Krygowski, Allen Herman Preston, David Emmett Stucki, Frederick J. Cox
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Patent number: 5792510Abstract: A method for forming a chemically-ordered ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal alloy film allows the temperature and/or time required for annealing to be reduced. The ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal alloy film is dosed with hydrogen either during or subsequent to deposition of the film on a substrate. The metal alloy film is then heated to desorb the hydrogen atoms from the metal alloy. In one embodiment for dosing the metal alloy film with hydrogen a transition metal of the type that catalyzes the dissociative chemisorption of H.sub.2, such as palladium (Pd), is deposited as a film in contact with the metal alloy film. The Pd film is then heated and while at an elevated temperature, it is exposed to H.sub.2 gas. The H.sub.2 becomes dissociated into hydrogen atoms and the hydrogen atoms become chemically absorbed by the Pd film. During subsequent cooling of the Pd film hydrogen atoms in the Pd film become absorbed into the metal alloy film.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robin Frederick Charles Farrow, Ronald Franklin Marks
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Patent number: 5786381Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising a hydroxy material selected from a layered double hydroxides and hydroxy salts which is suitable for treating the skin and delivering thereto the benefit agents.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1997Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's U.S.A. Co., Division of Conopco Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Susan Mary Houghton, Ian Gardner Lyle
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Patent number: 5699082Abstract: A pointing system for controlling a cursor on a computer display device includes a single control actuator that ordinarily controls movement of the cursor on the display device and also detects if an applied cursor force matches a predetermined tap signature. If the applied force substantially matches the predetermined tap signature, then the system responds to the applied force by initiating one or more display actions rather than by moving the display cursor. The system detects tap signature forces applied along the x, y, and z axes of the control actuator and responds by retrieving a cursor context comprising a window display and corresponding cursor location from a queue and opening the associated window. That is, the system changes the active window from among windows of a graphical user interface, preserving the cursor position within each window. Other tap signature responses can correspond to functions initiated by programmable function keys or to user-defined functions.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronald Franklin Marks, Edwin Joseph Selker
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Patent number: 5641813Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising a hydroxy material selected from;a) layered double hydroxides of formula[M.sub.(1-a) N.sub.a (OH).sub.2 ].sup.y+ X.sup.x-.sub.y/x.zH.sub.2 O(I)b) a hydroxy salt of formula[M'(OH).sub.(2-a') ].sup.a'+ (X.sup.x-).sub.(a'-/x).zH.sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Susan Mary Houghton, Ian Gardner Lyle
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Patent number: 4697253Abstract: A ship-borne sonar heave compensation system measures the heave at time of transmit and at the expected time of receive of a bottom-echo which is approximated by the previous depth determination corrected for heave. Using these values of heave, the depth of the detected bottom-echo is corrected to provide the true depth corrected for heave. A chart recorder reads out from memory the sonar return signals, including the bottom-echo, corrected for these heave values to present a true picture of the bottom contour.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1986Date of Patent: September 29, 1987Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Earl R. Lind, Ronald A. Franklin