ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,523, issued on March 3, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Individually wrapped absorbent article and method for manufacturing individually wrapped absorbent article" was invented by Megumi Yoshiba (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An individually wrapped absorbent article that includes an absorbent article, and a wrapping sheet configured to wrap the absorbent article is provided. The wrapping sheet is folded toward an inner surface of the wrapping sheet so as to cause a first region including one end in a first direction of the wrapping sheet and a second region including an opposite end in the first dir...