US 12,529,015 B2Granted

Fabric anti-odour agent, method of production and uses thereof

AssigneesCentitvc—Centro De Nanotecnologia E Materiais TéCnicos, Funcionais E Inteligentes, Universidade CatóLica Portuguesa, Citeve—Centro TecnolóGico Das Industrias TêXteis E Do VestuáRio De Portugal, Riopele—TêXteis, SA

InventorsLorena Henrique Guimarães Coelho, Catarina Dias Da Costa, Nuno Gonçalo Azoia Lopes, Inês Marques Pinheiro, Ana Isabel Teixeira Ribeiro De Magalhães, Maria Manuela Estevez Pintado, Inês Gonçalves Valente Guimarães, Patrícia Sofia Pinhanços Batista, Ricardo Jorge Guedes Paiva Freixo, José De Almeida Morgado, Rosa Maria Gomes Esteves Da Silva, Albertina Maria Faria Reis, Angela Cristina Rodrigues Castro Teles, Marta Sofia Sousa Ribeiro Carvalho, Mario Rafael Silva Marques

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the use of whey protein as an anti-odour agent in a fabric, a textile finishing anti-odour method using whey proteins as an anti-odour agent, anti-odour compositions and anti-odour articles.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A composition for functionalizing a fabric substrate comprising:

a whey protein, a whey protein fraction, or a denatured whey protein;
as a deodorant agent or as deodorizer agent bound to the fabric substrate;
provided that if the composition comprises whey protein or a whey protein fraction a suitable binder is present;
wherein the whey protein is a whey protein isolate, a whey protein concentrate, or mixtures thereof.

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Facts

Application: 18/258,051Filed 20 Dec 2021
Priority: PT 11695918 Dec 2020
Published: US 2024/0034959 A11 Feb 2024
Granted: 20 Jan 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

C11D 3/384
Products with no well-defined composition , e.g. natural products: animal products
B01J 20/24
Comprising organic material: naturally occurring macromolecular compounds, e.g. humic acids or their derivatives
B01J 20/28026
Characterised by their form: particles within, immobilised, dispersed, entrapped in or on a matrix, e.g. a resin
C11D 3/0068
Other compounding ingredients characterised by their effect: deodorant compositions