ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,292, issued on May 19, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Attachable-type disposable wearing article" was invented by Aya Oshima (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem is to provide excellent slipping-down preventive property with a simpler structure. This problem is solved by an attachable-type disposable wearing article configured so that, in the natural length state, as the unfixed area contracts, a pair of side areas of the end flap positioned lateral to the unfixed area are obliquely drawn closer as they extend backward, which results in formation of transverse portion extending in the width dir...