ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,712, issued on June 2, was assigned to THE PENNINGTON SCHOOL, Women in STEM Solving Problems ("WISSP") (Pennington, N.J.).

"Reusable shell for absorbent article" was invented by Susan Wirsig (Pennington, N.J.), Shealyn Tirendi (Pennington, N.J.), Kira Cafferty (Pennington, N.J.), Julia McDougall (Pennington, N.J.), Francesca Pendus (Pennington, N.J.), Jordan Mahony (Pennington, N.J.), Elizabeth Adams (Pennington, N.J.), Ariana Colner (Pennington, N.J.), Gloria Liu (Pennington, N.J.), Isabella Fermo (Pennington, N.J.), Emily Barkley (Pennington, N.J.), Alexa Lepold (Pennington, N.J.), Maygala Selvisudhakar (Pennington, N.J.) and Molly Gibbard (Pennington, N.J.).

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