ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,046, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Sanitary article with shaping element" was invented by Oscar Lipschutz (Gothenburg, Sweden), Louise Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Philip Blomstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a sanitary article, including a topsheet, a backsheet and absorbent core, the sanitary article having an extension in a longitudinal direction and transverse direction, first and second longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction and front and rear transverse edges extending in the transverse direction, the sa...