US 12,064,495 B2
Oral cavity cleaning composition, method, and apparatus
Mohamed Emam Labib, West Palm Beach, FL (US); Antonio Perazzo, Princeton, NJ (US); Anthony E. Winston, East Brunswick, NJ (US); Yacoob Tabani, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); James L. Manganaro, Princeton, NJ (US); Lucas Lawrence Franz, Mount Laurel, NJ (US); Seo Yean Sohn, Princeton, NJ (US); and Christopher Kuchar, Hopewell, NJ (US)
Assigned to Protegera, Inc., Madison, WI (US)
Filed by Protegera, Inc., Madison, WI (US)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/225,049.
Application 17/225,049 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/062,424, filed on Oct. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/169,585, filed on Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/913,565, filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,049, filed on Oct. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0330557 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61Q 11/00 (2006.01); A61K 8/02 (2006.01); A61K 8/04 (2006.01); A61K 8/73 (2006.01); D01D 5/42 (2006.01); B82Y 5/00 (2011.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01)
CPC A61K 8/027 (2013.01) [A61K 8/042 (2013.01); A61K 8/731 (2013.01); A61Q 11/00 (2013.01); D01D 5/423 (2013.01); A61K 2800/28 (2013.01); A61K 2800/805 (2013.01); A61K 2800/92 (2013.01); B82Y 5/00 (2013.01); B82Y 40/00 (2013.01); D10B 2201/00 (2013.01); D10B 2401/02 (2013.01); D10B 2509/00 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
 
1. An oral hygiene composition comprising:
a mixture of: (i) a carrier liquid; and (ii) water-insoluble hydratable polymer fibers forming an entangled three-dimensional network of said water-insoluble hydratable polymer a fibers in said carrier liquid; wherein:
said carrier liquid comprises water and at least one of glycerol, sorbitol, or a mixture of glycerol and sorbitol, wherein the at least one of glycerol, sorbitol, or a mixture of glycerol and sorbitol is present in excess of 20 wt. % based on the weight of the composition;
said composition has an elastic modulus G′ and a loss modulus G″, and said elastic modulus G′ is larger that said loss modulus G″; and
said water-insoluble hydratable polymer fibers have a diameter of about 10 to about 20,000 nm and a length of at least 100 nm.