ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,050, issued on June 30, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method of manufacturing an absorbent core for a disposable absorbent hygiene article" was invented by Lucas Back (Gothenburg, Sweden), Cleiton Aparecido Ribeiro De Souza (Jarinu, Brazil), Montserrat Martinez Estela (Puigpelat, Spain) and Fanny Stenholm (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an absorbent core for a disposable absorbent hygiene article includes providing a first core cover web and at least one pleat in the first core cover web; applying an adhesive to the pleated first core cover web...