US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on Feb. 24 for "Absorbent body, water-absorbing resin, and absorbent article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,451, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Absorbent body, water-absorbing resin, and absorbent article" was invented by Daisuke Takeda (Himeji, Japan), Reiko Nakatsuru (Himeji, Japan), Keisuke Kikuchi (Himeji, Japan), Tomoya Arai (Himeji, Japan), Kenji Tada (Himeji, Japan), Nobuya Tanaka (Himeji, Japan) and Kazuki Kimura (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an absorbent body that, for example, in a case where the absorbent body has been used in an absorbent article, such as a thin disposable diaper, having an absorbent body with a low proportion of fiber material (hydrophil...