Patents by Inventor Vanessa Marie Melendez
Vanessa Marie Melendez 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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Publication number: 20230329924Abstract: A stretch laminate is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include a layer of nonwoven material that includes an accumulation of filaments and has an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone having an attenuated region adjacent to a build-up region wherein the attenuated region has a first basis weight and the build-up region has a second basis weight greater than the first basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The stretch laminate may include a plurality of elastic strands space apart from each other in a crotch-stretch direction. In some examples the elastic strands may have an Average Strand Spacing no greater than 3 mm and/or an Average Decitex no greater than 300, and/or an Average Pre-Strain no greater than 250 percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Elizabeth Jo Bruns
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Publication number: 20230200459Abstract: A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Shiqiao LI, Ruizhi PEI, Kaoru ISHIHARA, Koichi MORIMOTO, Xuechun WANG, Ling TONG, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Patent number: 11633308Abstract: An absorbent article or an array of absorbent articles comprising visual characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANYInventors: Ryo Minoguchi, Sion Agami, Vanessa Marie Melendez
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Patent number: 11617397Abstract: A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Shiqiao Li, Ruizhi Pei, Kaoru Ishihara, Koichi Morimoto, Xuechun Wang, Ling Tong, John Andrew Strasemeier, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Monica Renee Tournoux
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Publication number: 20230036659Abstract: A stretch laminate is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include a layer of nonwoven material that includes an accumulation of filaments and has an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone having an attenuated region adjacent to a build-up region wherein the attenuated region has a first basis weight and the build-up region has a second basis weight greater than the first basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The stretch laminate may include a plurality of elastic strands space apart from each other in a crotch-stretch direction. In some examples the elastic strands may have an Average Strand Spacing no greater than 3 mm and/or an Average Decitex no greater than 300, and/or an Average Pre-Strain no greater than 250 percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Elizabeth Jo Bruns
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Patent number: 11547613Abstract: A stretch laminate is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include a layer of nonwoven material that includes an accumulation of filaments and has an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone having an attenuated region adjacent to a build-up region wherein the attenuated region has a first basis weight and the build-up region has a second basis weight greater than the first basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The stretch laminate may include a plurality of elastic strands space apart from each other in a crotch-stretch direction. In some examples the elastic strands may have an Average Strand Spacing no greater than 3 mm and/or an Average Decitex no greater than 300, and/or an Average Pre-Strain no greater than 250 percent.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Arman Ashraf, Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Elizabeth Jo Bruns
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Publication number: 20210022411Abstract: A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Shiqiao LI, Ruizhi PEI, Kaoru ISHIHARA, Koichi MORIMOTO, Xuechun WANG, Ling TONG, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Publication number: 20200390162Abstract: A wearable article has a front elastic belt region, a back elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening, and two leg openings. Each elastic belt region has a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. The elastic member is bonded continuously for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent side edges of the elastic belts. At least the outer sheet includes a first repeating pattern of apertures having a Longitudinal Orientation. Each aperture has an aspect ratio of no more than 3, a transverse dimension APT of at least 0.4 mm, and a longitudinal dimension APL. APT is at least 10% greater than APL. The apertures are spaced apart with a longitudinal pitch DF2 of no more than 5 mm and a transverse pitch DF1. APL is not larger than 50% of DF2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Kaoru Ishihara, Shiqiao Li, Xuechun Wang, Koichi MORIMOTO, John Andrew Strasemeier, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Monica Renee Tournoux
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Publication number: 20200260799Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising front and back elastic belt regions and a crotch region between the front and back elastic belt regions; the front and back elastic belt regions each comprising a laminate, an elastic bonding continuously bonding an elastic member in the direction of stretch, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the elastic member to at least one of the inner and outer sheets, the vertical bonding having a transverse dimension VG2 and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG1, wherein the outer sheet comprises a repeating pattern of apertures, the repeating pattern of apertures spaced apart from each other with a longitudinal pitch DF2, and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch DF1, wherein VG1 is greater than DF1, and wherein the repeating pattern of apertures have a Longitudinal Orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Kaoru ISHIHARA, Shiqiao LI, Xuechun WANG, Koichi MORIMOTO, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Publication number: 20200261281Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a front elastic belt region, a back elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings, the laminate comprising an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and elastic strands running in a transverse direction and spaced apart from at least about 6 mm to about 18 mm in a longitudinal direction, wherein the laminate comprises an elastic bonding which continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent the side edges of the front and back elastic belts, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet with intervals in the transverse direction to intermittently bond the inner sheet and the outer sheet, wherein the outer sheet hydrophilicity is greater than the inner sheet hydrophilicity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Kaoru ISHIHARA, Shiqiao LI, Xuechun WANG, Koichi MORIMOTO, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Meng CHEN, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Publication number: 20200261282Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a front elastic belt, a back elastic belt, a crotch region extending longitudinally between the front elastic belt and the back elastic belt; wherein at least 10% of the longitudinal dimension of the front and back elastic belts from a waist opening is a laminate in active elasticity defining an Upper Gather Region. The Upper Gather Region may have a particular Directional Dispersion Value and a particular Continuity Value according to measurements herein. The laminate may have at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet comprising a plurality of deformations aligned in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Shiqiao LI, Ruizhi PEI, Kaoru ISHIHARA, Koichi MORIMOTO, Xuechun WANG, Ling TONG, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Publication number: 20200260800Abstract: A wearable article includes front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and a an elastic member running in the transverse direction. Elastic bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent side edges of the elastic belts, and vertical bonding applied to the inner and/or the outer sheet intermittently bonds the elastic member to said inner and/or outer sheets. At least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet comprises a plurality of deformations aligned in the longitudinal direction. The article has a Stretch Circumference Force of about 6.5 N or less and a Fit Circumference Force of at least about 3.0 N. The ratio of Stretch Circumference Force/Fit Circumference Force is less than about 1.8.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Shiqiao LI, Ruizhi PEI, Kaoru ISHIHARA, Koichi MORIMOTO, Xuechun WANG, Ling TONG, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Monica Renee TOURNOUX
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Publication number: 20200093654Abstract: An absorbent article or an array of absorbent articles comprising visual characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Ryo MINOGUCHI, Sion AGAMI, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ
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Patent number: 10548781Abstract: An absorbent article or an array of absorbent articles comprising visual characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ryo Minoguchi, Sion Agami, Vanessa Marie Melendez
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Publication number: 20190298586Abstract: A stretch laminate is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include a layer of nonwoven material that includes an accumulation of filaments and has an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone having an attenuated region adjacent to a build-up region wherein the attenuated region has a first basis weight and the build-up region has a second basis weight greater than the first basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The stretch laminate may include a plurality of elastic strands space apart from each other in a crotch-stretch direction. In some examples the elastic strands may have an Average Strand Spacing no greater than 3 mm and/or an Average Decitex no greater than 300, and/or an Average Pre-Strain no greater than 250 percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Elizabeth Jo Bruns
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Publication number: 20190076306Abstract: An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region, wherein the first waist region and second waist region are joined with each other such that a pair of side seams are formed and the absorbent article has two leg openings and a waist opening. At least one of the first waist region and the second waist region include graphics disposed in a first graphic zone, a second graphic zone, and/or a third graphic zone, wherein the first graphic zone, the second graphic zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Tina Marie GLAHN, Rachael Eden WALTHER, Gary Dean LaVON, Amanda Margaret BICKING, Diana Woehnl JURATOVAC, Sara Jon SHIPLEY, Vanessa Marie MELENDEZ, Fred Naval DESAI, Margaret Henderson HASSE
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Patent number: D843566Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Vanessa Marie Melendez, Sion Agami, Jessica Owen Stephens, Jennifer Laura Spriggs, Monica R. Tournoux
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Patent number: D849554Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Stevi Lee Carr, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Brenda Marie Mahan
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Patent number: D851241Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sion Agami, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Monica R. Tournoux, Corinne Rowley
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Patent number: D861862Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sion Agami, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Monica R. Tournoux, Corinne Rowley