US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on June 30 for "Articles with zoned apertured materials and registration methods" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,500, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Articles with zoned apertured materials and registration methods" was invented by Max S. Liedl (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Absorbent articles comprising apertured regions and methods of manufacture and registration are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of registering webs comprises moving first and second webs in a machine direction, capturing a first image comprising a portion of the second web, filtering the captured first image to determine one or more regions of the captured first image having a light transmittance value gr...