US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Aug. 4 for "Fibrous structures" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,594, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fibrous structures" was invented by Fei Wang (Mason, Ohio), Douglas Jay Barkey (Salem Township, Ohio), James Allen Cain (Albany, N.Y.), Stephen John DelVecchio (Cincinnati), Angela Marie Leimbach (Hamilton, Ohio), Kun Piao (Deerfield Township, Ohio), James Kenneth Comer (West Chester, Ohio) and Ryan Dominic Maladen (Anderson Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous structure. The structure may include a plurality of continuous or semi-continuous knuckles extending from portions of the surface of the fibrous structure in a parallel path, where...