US Patent Issued to Drylock Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Absorbent article with improved capillary acceleration sheet" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,278, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Drylock Technologies NV (Zele, Belgium).

"Absorbent article with improved capillary acceleration sheet" was invented by Werner Van Ingelgem (Zele, Belgium), Tom Derycke (Zele, Belgium), Steven Smet (Zele, Belgium) and Bart Van Malderen (Zele, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article comprising a liquid pervious topsheet (300), a liquid impervious backsheet (200), absorbent material positioned between the liquid pervious topsheet and the liquid impervious backsheet, and a capillary acceleration sheet (400) between the absorbent material and the liquid pervious topsheet, wherei...