ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,530, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Elastic member and disposable wearing article including elastic member" was invented by Syunsuke Sakai (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member that exhibits a complicated appearance without monotonous contraction wrinkles and has excellent appeal to consumers when the member is applied to an absorbent article. A third joined portion row is formed between a first joined portion row A1 and a second joined portion row adjacent to each other, and an interval of at least a part of the third joined portion row in the alignment direction is longer than...