ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,196, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy).
"Method and apparatus for producing pant-like absorbent sanitary articles" was invented by Gabriele Sablone (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing pant-like absorbent sanitary articles, wherein a plurality of absorbent bodies are attached to a single continuous elastic band, which is cut to form a plurality of absorbent sanitary articles in an outspread configuration, which are then folded in a closed pant-like configuration."
The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2022, under Application No. 17/979,046...