US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gambel on Sept. 2 for "Absorbent articles comprising a SBC based hotmelt adhesive" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,434, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Procter & Gambel Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles comprising a SBC based hotmelt adhesive" was invented by Robert Haines Turner (Cincinnati), Torsten Lindner (Kronberg, Germany), Christian Neu (Eppstein, Germany), Gabriele Stiehl (Bad Soden, Germany), Jeremia Schwabe (Gersthofen, Germany), Erik Hauck (Gersthofen, Germany), Felix Kirschvink (Frankfurt, Germany) and Sebastijan Bach (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article comprising a hotmelt adhesive comprising a styrene-block-copolymer (SBC), an amorphous polyolefin and optionally a tackifier. The SBC is pre...