US Patent Issued to KPR U.S. on June 23 for "Absorbent articles having pockets and related methods therefor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,426, issued on June 23, was assigned to KPR U.S. LLC (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Absorbent articles having pockets and related methods therefor" was invented by Harish A. Patel (Norfolk, Mass.), Richard E. Gahan (Wrentham, Mass.) and Vishal Narvekar (Mansfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides articles having an absorbent core with a plurality of segmented volumes defined by a network of filaments, with an absorbent material therein. Suitable articles which may be formed with this absorbent core include, for example, diapers such as infant diapers, juvenile diapers and training pants, feminine hygiene pro...