Patents by Inventor Timothy Duane Smith

Timothy Duane Smith 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).

  • Textured fibrous structures
    Patent number: 11732406
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • TEXTURED FIBROUS STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20220056638
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Textured fibrous structures
    Patent number: 11174590
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Textured Fibrous Structures
    Publication number: 20200340176
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Textured fibrous structures
    Patent number: 10711395
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Textured Fibrous Structures
    Publication number: 20170022660
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Scrubby Fibrous Structures and Methods for Making Same
    Publication number: 20160174777
    Abstract: Scrubby fibrous structures and more particularly scrubby coform fibrous structures and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Cunming Song, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Michael Donald Suer, Christopher Michael Young, Timothy Duane Smith, Shannon Elizabeth Welsh
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES CONTAINING SURFACTANTS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150094252
    Abstract: A dry-to-the-touch fibrous structure containing a surfactant paste composition, surfactant paste composition used therewith, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Oscar Augusto Cuyubamba, Michael Scott Prodoehl, Fei Wang, Steven Lee BARNHOLTZ, Michael Donald SUER, Timothy Duane SMITH
  • Process for making absorbent component
    Patent number: 8771471
    Abstract: A process for making an absorbent component comprising the steps of providing individual sheets of pulp; attaching a first individual pulp sheet to one or more second individual pulp sheets to form a strip of pulp; feeding the strip of pulp into a defiberizer; defiberizing the strip of pulp to form defiberized fibers; and depositing the defiberized fibers onto a forming surface to form the absorbent component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Anirudh Singh, Christopher Michael Young, Timothy Duane Smith, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Dirk Saevecke, Gina Isoldi, Florian Philip Rousselange, Norbert Matthias Stelzer
  • Thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives and methods for making same
    Patent number: 8592573
    Abstract: Thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives, articles employing such thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives and methods for making such thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Lee Barcus, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Alan Howard Ullman, Dean Van Phan, Mark Edwin Forry, John Collins Dyer, Timothy Duane Smith, Jeanette Marie Swartz, Yonas (NMN) Gizaw
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING ABSORBENT COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20130228948
    Abstract: A process for making an absorbent component comprising the steps of providing individual sheets of pulp; attaching a first individual pulp sheet to one or more second individual pulp sheets to form a strip of pulp; feeding the strip of pulp into a defiberizer; defiberizing the strip of pulp to form defiberized fibers; and depositing the defiberized fibers onto a forming surface to form the absorbent component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Anirudh Singh, Christopher Michael Young, Timothy Duane Smith, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Dirk Saevecke, Gina Isoldi, Florian Philip Rousselange, Norbert Matthias Stelzer
  • PROCESS FOR DEFIBERIZING PULP
    Publication number: 20130037635
    Abstract: A process for defiberizing pulp comprising the steps of attaching a first individual pulp sheet to one or more second individual pulp sheets to form a strip of pulp and feeding the strip of pulp into a defiberizer. The strip of pulp comprises a first individual pulp sheet attached to one or more second individual pulp sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Anirudh Singh, Christopher Michael YOUNG, Timothy Duane SMITH, Steven Lee BARNHOLTZ, Dirk SAEVECKE, Gina ISOLDI, Florian ROUSSELANGE
  • THERMOPLASTIC HETEROPOLYSACCHARIDE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20100044627
    Abstract: Thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives, articles employing such thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives and methods for making such thermoplastic heteropolysaccharide derivatives are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Barcus, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad, Alan Howard Ullman, Dean Van Phan, Mark Edwin Forry, John Collins Dyer, Timothy Duane Smith, Jeanette Marie Swartz