ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,047, issued on Oct. 20.

"Feminine pants protector" was invented by Sandra Faye Moore (Asheville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feminine pants protector for use in combination with a pair of pants includes a top side and a bottom side; an absorbent segment; a first wing segment and a second wing segment each extending from the absorbent segment; a plurality of adhesive strips on the bottom side, each one of the plurality of adhesive strips being structured and disposed for selectively adhering the bottom side to the inner facing crotch surface and inner facing leg surfaces of the pair of pants such that the absorbent segment i...