ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,701, issued on Jan. 20.
"Stretch laminate for incontinent device" was invented by Donald Harley Lester (Le Cellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element for an incontinent device includes: a stretch laminate having a stretch zone having an elongation with a set of less than about 20%, at a tensile load of 10 N/inch, a dead zone having an elongation of at least about 20% lower than the elongation of the stretch zone, and a hook layer registered in the dead zone of the stretch laminate, and where: H1+H2less than=H3, when the hook layer having a height H1, the stretch zone having a height H2, and the dead zone where the hook...