ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,508, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles and methods for making absorbent articles with frangible pathways" was invented by Jeffry Rosiak (Loveland, Ohio), Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Michael Brian Quade (Blue Ash, Ohio), Matthew Alexander Gittings (Cincinnati), Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio) and Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles including elastic laminates and to methods and apparatuses for mak...