ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,743, issued on July 7, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKITEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Dispenser for dispensing web-shaped absorbent material from a centrefeed roll" was invented by Thomas Geertsen (Borlange, Sweden), Antonio Kallgren (Borlange, Sweden), Marcus Kullman (Borlange, Sweden), Susanne Gungner (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Tomas Gandemo (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispenser for dispensing a web-shaped absorbent material from at least one centrefeed roll comprising a roll compartment for each roll. Each roll compartment is delimited by at least three separate roll compartment surfaces arranged...