ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,197, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with leg gasketing system" was invented by Jing Zhang (Beijing), Kaiyan Kuang (Beijing), Mengmeng Zhang (Beijing), Koichi Morimoto (Beijing), Natalia Nikolaewna Gaiko (Kronberg, Germany), Christine Elisabeth Schober (Eschborn, Germany), Sarah Zitzer (Giessen, Germany), Petra Ballenberger (Kronberg, Germany) and Lei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a pant type absorbent article comprising a core chassis and a leg gasketing system comprising a pair of wearer facing cuff regions comprising an inner cuff sealing and ...