Lin Yang

6806249, Oct 19, 2004

Feb 28, 2002

10/085736

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ
Judith Lynne Kerschner - Hawthorne NJ

Unilever Home Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco - Greenwich CT

A61K 746

512 1, 512 2, 512 3

The present invention relates to compositions having a fragrance burst of at least 20% relative to a product before dilution. The composition is selected such that perfume and surfactant in said composition yields a calculated âPerfume Burst Indexâ (PBI) value of less than 3 as per algorithm defining the PBI.

6858574, Feb 22, 2005

Feb 28, 2002

10/085721

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ, US
Judith Lynne Kerschner - Hawthorne NJ, US

Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

A61K007/46

512 1, 512 2, 512 3

The present invention relates to a process for preparing or selecting compositions having a fragrance burst of at least 20% relative to a product before dilution. The composition is selected such that perfume and surfactant in said composition yields a calculated “Perfume Burst Index” (PBI) value of greater than 3 as per algorithm defining the PBI.

6998382, Feb 14, 2006

Feb 28, 2002

10/084907

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ, US
Judith Lynne Kerschner - Hawthorne NJ, US

Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

A61K 7/46

512 1, 512 2, 512 3

The present invention relates to a process for preparing or selecting compositions having a fragrance burst of at least 20% relative to a product before dilution as well as enhanced deposition. The composition is selected such that perfume and surfactant in said composition yields a calculated “Perfume Burst Index” (PBI) value of less than 3 as per algorithm defining the PBI.

7129201, Oct 31, 2006

Aug 18, 2003

10/643173

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ, US
Rajesh Patel - Lyndhurst NJ, US
Kavssery Parameswaran Ananthapadmanabhan - Highland Mills NJ, US
Judith Lynne Kerschner - Hawthorne NJ, US

Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc. - Greenwich CT

C11D 17/00

510417, 510428, 510470

The invention relates to stable aqueous-aqueous emulsions defined by a dispersed phase having molecule(s) meeting special criteria and continuous phase having surfactant or surfactant system with micelles in rod-like shapes.

20070066500, Mar 22, 2007

Sep 21, 2005

11/231622

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ, US
Kavssery Ananthapadmanabhan - Highland Mills NY, US
Junqi Ding - Tenafly NJ, US
Kannapon Lopetcharat - New York NY, US
Teanoosh Moaddel - Bridgewater NJ, US

A61K 8/00

510130000

The invention discloses compositions with enhanced squeaky feel, when rinsed in water, defined by a region of a surfactant-cation phase diagram comprising surfactant-cation precipitate and/or surfactant monomer, but substantially no surfactant micelle. The present invention focuses, for example, on the relationship between counter-ion (e.g., cation, preferably salt cation) and surfactant. Specifically, it has been found that enhancing the precipitation of counter-ion-surfactant complex helps reduce surfactant micellar concentration, enhance surface tension and lead to compositions with enhanced “squeaky” feel. The precipitation can in turn be promoted by enhancing surfactant counter-ion interaction, e.g., by increasing sensitivity of surfactant to counter-ion (e.g., by using long chain length hydrophobe group), and/or by preformulating additional counter-ion into the surfactant solution.

20070066501, Mar 22, 2007

Sep 21, 2005

11/232043

Lin Yang - Fort Lee NJ, US
Kavssery Ananthapadmanabhan - Highland Mills NY, US
Junqi Ding - Tenafly NJ, US
Kannapon Lopetcharat - New York NY, US
Teanoosh Moaddel - Bridgewater NJ, US

A61K 8/00

510130000

The invention discloses process for enhancing squeaky feel by reducing or eliminating surfactant micelles on dilution. The present invention focuses, for example, on the relationship between counter-ion (e.g., cation, preferably salt cation) and surfactant. Specifically, it has been found that enhancing the precipitation of counter-ion-surfactant complex helps reduce surfactant micellar concentration, reduce surface tension and lead to enhanced “squeaky” feel. The precipitation can in turn be promoted by enhancing surfactant counter-ion interaction, e.g., by increasing sensitivity of surfactant to counter-ion (e.g., by using long chain length hydrophobe group), and/or by preformulating additional counter-ion into the surfactant solution. Micellar structure can also be reduced or eliminated by co-blending of surfactant, using co-solvent and/or using surfactants of lower Krafft point.

20080299054, Dec 4, 2008

May 30, 2007

11/755009

Prem Chandar - Closter NJ, US
Lin Yang - Woodbridge CT, US

CONOPCO, INC., d/b/a UNILEVER - Englewood Cliffs NJ

A61K 8/34
A61K 31/14
A61K 31/17

424 54, 424 59, 424 65, 424 701, 514588

A personal care product is provided which includes a fragrance, a substituted urea and a quaternary ammonium salt. The substituted urea and quaternary ammonium salt operate together as a scent boosting system to enhance volatilization of fragrance components upon the personal care composition being first applied to human skin or hair.

20110282181, Nov 17, 2011

Nov 12, 2010

12/945733

Ge WANG - Blacksburg VA, US
Yong Xu - Blacksburg VA, US
Alexander Cong - Blacksburg VA, US
Haiou Shen - Blacksburg VA, US
Wenxiang Cong - Christiansburg VA, US
Lin Yang - Ithaca NY, US
Yang Lu - Blacksburg VA, US

A61B 6/00
A61B 6/03
G06K 9/00
G01N 23/04

600407, 378 62, 378 9, 382131

The present invention relates to the field of medical imaging. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to methods, systems, and devices for imaging, including for tomography-based applications. Embodiments of the invention include, for example, a computed tomography based imaging system comprising: (a) at least one wide-beam gray-scale imaging chain capable of performing a global scan of an object and acquiring projection data relating to the object; (b) at least one narrow-beam true-color imaging chain capable of performing a spectral interior scan of a region of interest (ROI) of and acquiring projection data relating to the object; (c) a processing module operably configured for: (1) receiving the projection data; (2) reconstructing the ROI into an image by analyzing the data with a color interior tomography algorithm, aided by an individualized gray-scale reconstruction of an entire field of view (FOV), including the ROI; and (d) a processor for executing the processing module. The extended interior methods and systems for spectral, optical, and photoacoustic imaging presented in this application can lead to better medical diagnoses by providing images with higher resolution or quality, and can lead to safer procedures by providing systems capable of reducing a patient's exposure time to, and thus quantity of, potentially harmful x-rays. Embodiments of the invention also provide tools for real-time tomography-based analyses.