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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2014
Applicant:
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Inventors:
Michael Glenn Davis, Lebanon, OH (US);
Michael Joseph Flagler, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Yiping Sun, Mason, OH (US);
Tanuja Chaudhary, West Chester, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/483 (2006.01); H01J 49/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/4833 (2013.01); G01N 33/6839 (2013.01); G01N 33/6851 (2013.01); H01J 49/0036 (2013.01); G01N 33/6824 (2013.01); G01N 33/6848 (2013.01); G01N 2333/4742 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method for demonstrating type and/or source of hair damage comprises extracting protein fragments from a hair sample with an aqueous solution, testing the resulting protein fragments with the MALDI-MS test, and then either comparing the results between a damaged sample and an undamaged sample or comparing the results between a damaged sample and a list of known marker protein fragments to identify the type and/or source of the damage.