US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Sept. 22 for "Multi-layer absorbent cores and methods of manufacture" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,898, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Multi-layer absorbent cores and methods of manufacture" was invented by Kueyoung You (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Minjae Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sanghee Ra (Gwangjin-gu, South Korea) and Somyong Song (Suseong-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-layered absorbent bodies and methods of manufacture are disclosed. A method of forming an absorbent body may comprise moving a first covering material in a machine direction, moving a reinforcing material in the machine direction and combining the reinforcing material with the first c...