ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,290, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Article having a bond pattern" was invented by Nelson Edward Greening II (Cincinnati) and Urmish Popatlal Dalal (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions; and a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The article further includes a stretch laminate having a bonding region. The bonding region has a plurality of ultrasonic bonds, a majority of the ultrason...