ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,978, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. (Pescara, Italy).
"Method for manufacturing absorbent sanitary products" was invented by Domenico Polidori (Pescara, Italy), Diego Gualtieri (Pescara, Italy) and Gabriele Sablone (Montesilvano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing absorbent sanitary products, comprising the steps of: forming a first and a second continuous elastic band, which are movable parallel to each other in a machine direction, fixing a plurality of absorbent panels between said first and second continuous elastic bands, arranged in a direction transverse to the machine...