Patents by Inventor Yonas Gizaw

Yonas Gizaw 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).

  • Publication number: 20160348043
    Abstract: The present application relates to high efficiency particles and compositions, such as consumer products, comprising such high efficiency particles as well as processes for making and using such high efficiency particles and compositions comprising such high efficiency particles. Such high efficiency particles and compositions provide enhanced benefit agent delivery to a situs that is treated with such high efficiency particles and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Johan SMETS, Pascale Claire Annick VANSTEENWINCKEL, Yonas GIZAW, Frank HULSKOTTER, Dieter BOECKH, Hans-Joachim HAEHNLE
  • Publication number: 20160310378
    Abstract: A solid composition comprising: (a) an aminosilicone polymer, wherein the aminosilicone polymer comprises amino sidechains, and wherein the aminosilicone polymer has a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 Dalton to 60,000 Dalton; (b) a silicone resin; (c) an ether of a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol; (d) one or more pigments or one or more coloured materials; (e) a thickening system comprising: a deposition enhancer, wherein the deposition enhancer is a hydrophilic and non-ionic polymer, and wherein the deposition enhancer has a weight average molecular weight of from 700,000 Dalton to 3,000,000 Dalton; and a thickening polymer, wherein the thickening polymer has a weight average molecular weight of at least 10,000 Dalton, and wherein the thickening polymer is a cationic thickening polymer or is a non-ionic thickening polymer. Also associated methods, kits and uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt HERRLEIN, Tatjana SCHAEFER, Andreas FLOHR, Rosalind Mary HOLMES, Marianna FORGIONE, Matija CRNE, Yonas GIZAW, Ursula Christina GLASER
  • Publication number: 20160235658
    Abstract: A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres, the composition comprising an aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin which is a MQ resin; a thickening system comprising a thickening polymer; water; one or more pigments or one or more coloured materials; wherein when drying the composition spread with an average wet thickness of 37 micron the fluidity factor is measured to form a drying curve of fluidity factor over time, wherein the fluidity factor is within the range of 10 Hz to 0.001 Hz within the first 15 minutes of drying and the fluidity factor reduces by at least a factor of 100 within the first 15 minutes of drying; wherein the drying curve of fluidity factor over time is measured according to the fluidity factor measurement method and at 23° C. and ambient conditions. Also associated methods, kits and uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt HERRLEIN, Ilaria AMBROGIO, Matthias MORAND, Tatjana SCHAEFER, Andreas FLOHR, Marianna FORGIONE, Matija CRNE, Yonas GIZAW, Ursula Christina GLASER
  • Publication number: 20160235654
    Abstract: A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres comprises: an aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin which is a MQ resin; a thickening system comprising a thickening polymer; and a solvent. The composition has a viscosity of from 30 mPa·s to 1000 mPa·s, wherein the viscosity is measured at 23° C. The composition has a tangent delta of less than 2 at an angular frequency of 1 Hz at 23° C. and at 1% strain. Also, associated methods, kits and uses are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt HERRLEIN, Matthais MORAND, Tatjana SCHAEFER, Andreas FLOHR, Marianna FORGIONE, Matija CRNE, Yonas GIZAW, Ursula Christina GLASER, Donal GREY
  • Publication number: 20160235655
    Abstract: A method for providing a film comprising pigment on keratin fibres comprises: (a) applying a composition to hair, wherein the composition comprises: an aminosilicone polymer, wherein the aminosilicone polymer comprises amino sidechains, and wherein the aminosilicone polymer has a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 Dalton to 60,000 Dalton; a silicone resin which is a MQ resin; a thickening system comprising a thickening polymer; one or more pigments or one or more coloured materials; a solvent; and subsequently (b) applying a coating formulation onto the hair, wherein the coating formulation comprises a silicone resin and a volatile solvent; wherein the keratin fibres are not rinsed between steps (a) and (b). Also associated kits and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Mathias Kurt HERRLEIN, Tatjana SCHAEFER, Andreas FLOHR, Marianna FORGIONE, Matija CRNE, Yonas GIZAW, Ursula Christina GLASER
  • Publication number: 20160101203
    Abstract: Compositions comprising hydrophobically modified malodor control polymers and methods thereof are provided. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a malodor control polymer, a malodor counteractant comprising a perfume, an aqueous carrier, and a ph of about 6 to about 8. Such compositions may be used to reduce or neutralize malodors on surfaces or in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-Man WOO, Cahit EYLEM, Yonas GIZAW, Larissa AZIRBAYEVA, Zaiyou LIU, Jeffrey Scott DUPONT
  • Patent number: 9248209
    Abstract: Compositions comprising hydrophobically modified malodor control polymers and methods thereof are provided. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a malodor control polymer, a malodor counteractant comprising a perfume, an aqueous carrier, and a ph of about 6 to about 8. Such compositions may be used to reduce or neutralize malodors on surfaces or in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ricky Ah-Man Woo, Cahit Eylem, Yonas Gizaw, Larissa Azirbayeva, Zaiyou Liu, Jeffrey Scott Dupont
  • Patent number: 9187715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning composition, preferably a laundry detergent composition, comprising a foam control composition comprising a hydrophobically modified cationic polymer, as well as processes for making and method of using such compositions. The composition of the present invention provides for enhanced suds removal during the rinse cycle with minimal or nil impact on suds volume during the wash cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Koushik Mukherjee, Ming Tang, Yonas Gizaw, Qing Chen, Frank Hulskotter, Darren Rees, Ouidad Benlahmar, Volodymyr Boyko, Aaron Figueroa, Sophia Ebert
  • Patent number: 9080129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified cationic polymers obtainable by the polymerization of one or more cationic ethylenically unsaturated monomers with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having anhydride, imide, lactone, carboxylic acid, isocyanate or blocked isocyanate group and a reactive siloxane and processes for preparing them. These polymers are useful i.a. as a depositioning aid of hydrophobic actives onto fibrous substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ouidad Benlahmar, Aaron Flores-Figueroa, Volodymyr Boyko, Dieter Boeckh, Markus Brym, Christofer Arisandy, Wolfgang Schrof, Frank Huelskoetter, Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Sumanth Narahari Jamadagni, Peter Koenig
  • Publication number: 20150174028
    Abstract: A method for shaping keratin fibres comprising: providing a crosslinking composition, wherein the crosslinking composition comprises: an active agent, wherein the active agent comprises a functional group selected from the group consisting of: —C(?O)—, —C(?O)—H, and —C(?O)—O—; and wherein the active agent is not an acid; and wherein the active agent has a molecular weight of 500 g/mol or less; a photocatalyst; a cosmetically acceptable carrier; and applying the crosslinking composition to keratin fibres, mechanically shaping the keratin fibres with an appliance or implement, and exposing the composition to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of from about 300 nm to about 750 nm. Also a related composition, use, kit and process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Randy Purnell WASHINGTON, Jamie Angel REED, Alan David WILLEY, Jacob Robert ADAMS, Philip Andrew SAWIN, John August WOS, Yonas GIZAW
  • Publication number: 20150147286
    Abstract: Consumer product compositions comprising organopolysiloxane conditioning polymers. Also disclosed are processes for making such compositions and to methods of using such compositions to provide a conditioning benefit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Carola Barrera, Steven Daryl Smith, Robert Joseph McChain, Yonas Gizaw, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Michael Albert Snyder
  • Publication number: 20150148511
    Abstract: Inventive organopolysiloxanes and consumer product compositions comprising such organopolysiloxanes. Such compositions can deposit effectively onto target substrates to deliver consumer-desired benefits such as conditioning, anti-wrinkle, softness, and anti-static.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Steven Daryl Smith, Robert Joseph McChain, Yonas Gizaw, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Carola Barrera
  • Publication number: 20150147568
    Abstract: Nonwoven fabrics comprising an organopolysiloxane polymer coating that can impart softness to said nonwoven fabric surface. Also disclosed are disposable absorbent articles comprising said nonwoven fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Carola Barrera, Steven Daryl Smith, Robert Joseph McChain, Yonas Gizaw, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles William Neal, John Lee Hammons
  • Publication number: 20150140052
    Abstract: Consumer product compositions providing enhanced hydrophobic benefit agent deposition. The benefit agent is provided as a benefit agent/deposition aid emulsion, where the benefit agent is physically adsorbed to the deposition aid before the emulsion is added to the balance of ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yonas Gizaw, Steven Daryl Smith, Robert Joseph McChain, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Carola Barrera, Peter Herbert Koenig, Sumanth Narahari Jamadagni
  • Publication number: 20150141587
    Abstract: Inventive organopolysiloxanes and consumer product compositions comprising such organopolysiloxanes. Such compositions can deposit effectively onto target substrates to deliver consumer-desired benefits such as conditioning, anti-wrinkle, softness, and anti-static.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Steven Daryl Smith, Robert Joseph McChain, Yonas Gizaw, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Carola Barrera
  • Publication number: 20150030557
    Abstract: Consumer product compositions providing enhanced hydrophobic benefit agent deposition. The benefit agent is provided as a benefit agent/deposition aid emulsion, where the benefit agent is physically adsorbed to the deposition aid before the emulsion is added to the balance of ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Yonas Gizaw, Steven Daryl Smith, Roy Jerome Harrington
  • Publication number: 20140249069
    Abstract: The present application relates to high efficiency particles and compositions, such as consumer products, comprising such high efficiency particles as well as processes for making and using such high efficiency particles and compositions comprising such high efficiency particles. Such high efficiency particles and compositions provide enhanced benefit agent delivery to a situs that is treated with such high efficiency particles and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan SMETS, Pascale Claire Annick VANSTEENWINCKEL, Yonas GIZAW, Frank HULSKOTTER, Dieter BOECKH, Hans-Joachim HAEHNLE
  • Patent number: 8765659
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a cationic polymer to provide stability to microcapsules in a composition, wherein the microcapsule comprises a shell encapsulating materials having an average C log P of at least 2.5 and more than 60% by weight of the encapsulated materials have a C log P of at least 3.3. The cationic polymer is derived from the polymerization of 5 to 100 mole percent of a cationic vinyl addition monomer, 0 to 95 percent acrylamide, and 5 to 500 ppm of a tetrafunctional vinyl addition monomer cross-linking agent. The cationic polymer and encapsulated material may be used, for example, in a fabric softener composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yonas Gizaw, Giulia Ottavia Bianchetti, Karel Geert Claeys, Jean-Francois Bodet, Olav Pieter Dora Tony Keijzer, Denise Malcuit Belanger, Lon Montgomery Gray, Peter Marie Kamiel Perneel
  • Patent number: 8759275
    Abstract: The present application relates to high efficiency particles and compositions, such as consumer products, comprising such high efficiency particles as well as processes for making and using such high efficiency particles and compositions comprising such high efficiency particles. Such high efficiency particles and compositions provide enhanced benefit agent delivery to a situs that is treated with such high efficiency particles and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel, Yonas Gizaw, Frank Hulskotter, Dieter Boeckh, Hans-Joachim Haehnle
  • Publication number: 20140057825
    Abstract: A functionalized substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank William DENOME, Tania Edmee BERGES CABRERA, Errol Hoffman WAHL, Jodi Lee BROWN, Renae Dianna FOSSUM, Vincenzo CATALFAMO, Yonas GIZAW, Lois Jean BOEKLEY