US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Dec. 16 for "Process of enzymatic degradation of an absorbent structure for a hygiene article" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,373, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Process of enzymatic degradation of an absorbent structure for a hygiene article" was invented by Rodrigo Rosati (Frankfurt, Germany) and Jose Carlos Garciagarcia (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process of enzymatic degradation of an absorbent structure, the absorbent structure being suitable for providing an absorbent core of a hygiene article, wherein the process comprises the step of contacting the absorbent structure with a solution comprising enzymes; wherein the absorbent structure comprises a polysaccha...