US Patent Issued to LIVEDO on March 31 for "Absorbent article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,181, issued on March 31, was assigned to LIVEDO Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Absorbent article" was invented by Yusuke Kakitsuba (Tokushima, Japan) and Yoshihisa Ota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide an absorbent article further suppressing occurrence of malodor after absorbing body fluid,[Solution] An absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable top sheet disposed on a skin surface side, a liquid impermeable back sheet disposed on an external surface side, and at least one water absorbent layer disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein the water absorbent layer includes a water absorben...