ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,507, issued on April 14, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing an elastic laminate and a disposable absorbent hygiene product comprising the elastic laminate" was invented by Tadeusz Mazurkiewicz (Brzeg, Poland) and Martien Vos (AR Zeist, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing an elastic laminate for an disposable absorbent hygiene product, said elastic laminate comprises at least a first continuous sheet and at least one elastic strand. Furthermore, it is disclosed an apparatus and a disposabl...