Patents by Inventor Steven Lee Barnholtz

Steven Lee Barnholtz 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).

  • Fast-wetting coform fibrous structures
    Patent number: 12385187
    Abstract: Fast-wetting (hydrophilic) coform fibrous structures, more particularly fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, for example dry fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, employing a wet-laid fibrous structure such as a paper web, and a coform fibrous structure, multi-ply fibrous structures, for example multi-ply sanitary tissue products such as multi-ply absorbent products for example multi-ply paper towel products, employing one or more fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, and methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Todd Leon Mansfield, Michael Gomer Stelljes
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 12377631
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Discretizer and method of using same
    Patent number: 12330164
    Abstract: Discretizers that exhibit improved solid additive laden fluid flow emanating from the discretizers and methods of using same, particularly for making fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING FIBROUS STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20250188648
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Steven Lee BARNHOLTZ, Douglas Jay BARKEY, Jonathan Paul BRENNAN, Ronald Thomas GORLEY, Michael Donald SUER, Paul Dennis TROKHAN
  • Fibrous structures comprising regions having different micro-CT intensive property values and associated transition slopes
    Patent number: 12320073
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing solid additives, and more particularly, fibrous structures containing two regions that exhibit at least one common micro-CT intensive property that differs in value and wherein the common micro-CT intensive property transitions between the two regions and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, J. Michael Bills, Alexander P. King
  • Process for making fibrous structures
    Patent number: 12258684
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles
    Patent number: 12168854
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, James Roy Denbow
  • SHIPPING UNIT LOAD WITH INCREASED STABILITY AND/OR SHIPPING EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20240383659
    Abstract: Cargo assemblages including a pallet, a load of packages arranged in one or more layers. and a support layer, in which the support layer is sized and positioned within the cargo assemblage to support and/or stabilize the cargo, thereby providing improved pallet efficiency, improved shipping efficiency, and/or improved stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Lee BARNHOLTZ, Peter Michael SEARLES, Andrew Dontae BIDDLE, Carlos Omar NILO POYANCO, Wesley Bernard BROKOPP, Deborah Sue SLOVUT, David Mark RASCH, Leo E. TASKE, II, Kimberly Marie GERLACH, Michael Bernard BECKUM, Nneka D. ROBINSON, Gustav André MELLIN
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 12128665
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 12122137
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, James Roy Denbow
  • Shipping unit load with increased stability and/or shipping efficiency
    Patent number: 12071289
    Abstract: Cargo assemblages including a pallet, a load of packages arranged in one or more layers, and a support layer, in which the support layer is sized and positioned within the cargo assemblage to support and/or stabilize the cargo, thereby providing improved pallet efficiency, improved shipping efficiency, and/or improved stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Peter Michael Searles, Andrew Dontae Biddle, Carlos Omar Nilo Poyanco, Wesley Bernard Brokopp, Deborah Sue Slovut, David Mark Rasch, Leo E. Taske, II, Kimberly Marie Gerlach, Michael Bernard Beckum, Nneka D. Robinson, Gustav André Mellin
  • Fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 12024805
    Abstract: Novel fibrous structures that contain filaments, and optionally, solid additives, such as fibers, for example wood pulp fibers, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures, and methods for making such fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Michael Donald Suer, Christopher Michael Young, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Mattias Schmidt
  • Fibrous structures and methods for making same
    Patent number: 11959225
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising spunbond filaments and solid additives and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Fibrous structures comprising three or more regions
    Patent number: 11926969
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
  • MULTI-PLY FIBROUS STRUCTURE-CONTAINING ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20240060243
    Abstract: Articles, for example multi-ply fibrous structure-containing articles such as multi-ply sanitary tissue products, containing two or more fibrous structure plies, and more particularly to multi-ply articles containing two or more fibrous structure plies having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved bulk and absorbent properties compared to known articles and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Christopher Michael Young, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Compressible pre-moistened fibrous structures
    Patent number: 11896179
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and optionally, solid additives, wherein the pre-moistened fibrous structures exhibit wet compressive modulus values that are superior to known pre-moistened fibrous structures as measured according to the Wet Compressive Modulus Test Method described herein and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Douglas Jay Barkey, Christopher Michael Young, Hailing Bao, Cunming Song, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer, David John Pung, Paul Thomas Weisman, Timothy James Klawitter
  • Article of manufacture making system
    Patent number: 11866852
    Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system including one or more dry solid additive inlets, one or more dry solid additive outlets and one or more prime movers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 11858245
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Article of Manufacture Making System
    Publication number: 20230392298
    Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • Discretizer and Method of Using Same
    Publication number: 20230330682
    Abstract: Discretizers that exhibit improved solid additive laden fluid flow emanating from the discretizers and methods of using same, particularly for making fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang