ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,822, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ontex BV (Buggenhout, Belgium) and Ontex Group NV (Erembodegem, Belgium).
"Absorbent article for liquid stool management" was invented by Christina Lambertz (Neuwied, Germany), Katharina Sprotte (Koblenz, Germany) and Agnes Dominika Reuter (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention concerns an absorbent article (10) comprising an absorbent core (12) sandwiched between a liquid permeable topsheet (14) and a liquid impermeable backsheet (16), and an acquisition distribution layer (18) arranged between said topsheet (14) and said absorbent core (12), wherein the absorbent...