US Patent Issued to Drylock Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Absorbent article with improved capillary acceleration sheet" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,869, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Drylock Technologies NV (Zele, Belgium).

"Absorbent article with improved capillary acceleration sheet" was invented by Steven Smet (Zele, Belgium), Tom Derycke (Zele, Belgium), Werner Van Ingelgem (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 (130) comprising superabsorbent polymer particles, positioned between the liquid pervious topsheet and the liquid impervious backsheet, and a capillary acceleration sheet (400) between the absorbent ...