Process for evaluating skin care product efficacy and skin care product efficacy evaluation system

• US 10,460,197 B1
• Filed: 08/09/2018
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hualin Huang, Ning Pan
• Original Assignee: Hualin Huang, Ning Pan
• Inventors: Pan, Ning, Huang, Hualin
• Primary Examiner(s): Desta, Elias
• Application Number:
  US16/100,044
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/96 containing materials, or derivatives thereof of undetermined constitution
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0086 Clothes; Hosiery
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/34 Paper
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/36 Textiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/447 Leather
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/20 Analysing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures

Abstract

An instrumental approach enabling evaluation of efficacy of skin care products is disclosed. Common problems shared by existing methods include first the difficulty whether to test the entire human face, or just focus on the key locations (not determined yet); the difficulty in conducting a repeatable test when human face is hard to fix on and changes between different persons; and how many different skin attributes to test for making a reliable and complete judgment. The instrumental approach of the process tests a sample at once to obtain all the information needed. It shows good repeatability and sensitivity. It yields necessary yet sufficient information in numbers.

Claims

1. A software as a service (SaaS) soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system to objectively evaluate the efficacy of a product as applied to a soft material, said SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system comprising:

a first sample soft material treated with a product;

a second sample soft material without treatment by the product;

a phabrometer comprising a motor, a rod, and a weight plate; and

a cloud server computing device that hosts a soft material applied product efficacy service, said cloud server computing device comprising a processor, a memory storage, and a soft material applied product efficacy program that is stored in the memory storage and which, when running on the processor of the cloud server computing device launches the soft material applied product efficacy service to evaluate efficacy of a soft material product, said soft material applied product efficacy program comprising sets of instructions for (i) receiving a set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data resulting from a first phabrometer-based test of the first sample soft material treated with the product and a second phabrometer-based test of the second sample soft material without treatment by the product, (ii) receiving a set of test condition settings that define a scope of testing by the phabrometer for each of the first phabrometer-based test of the first sample soft material treated with the product and the second phabrometer-based test of the second sample soft material without treatment by the product, (iii) calculating an efficacy value for each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data resulting from the first phabrometer-based test of the first sample soft material treated with the product, (iv) calculating baseline values for each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data resulting from the second phabrometer-based test of the second sample soft material without treatment by the product, and (v) demonstrating the efficacy of the soft material product in comparison with no soft material product by one or more displayed comparison charts.

2. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of textile attributes.

3. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of apparel attributes.

4. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of leather attributes.

5. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of consumer product attributes.

6. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of healthcare attributes.

7. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of paper product attributes.

8. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein each soft material attribute in the set of skin care product efficacy test project attribute data corresponds to a set of fine chemical attributes.

9. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1 further comprising a soft material applied product efficacy evaluation host applications database comprising at least one of a soft material applied product efficacy evaluation software application, a soft material applied product efficacy evaluation mobile app, and a soft material applied product efficacy evaluation web application.

10. The SaaS soft material applied product efficacy evaluation system of claim 1, wherein the phabrometer further comprises an electric actuator, a weight plate holder, a slider, an electric motor controller, a power system, and a data acquisition system, wherein the power system provides a current of electricity to the electric actuator and the electric motor controller provides control to move the slider vertically up and down the electric actuator, wherein the weight plate holder secures a soft material sample on the weight plate being applied to the soft material sample when the slider moves vertically up the electric actuator, wherein the rod applies downward pressure to the soft material sample as the slider moves further vertically up the electric actuator.