ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,618, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fibrous structures different fibrous elements" was invented by David William Cabell (Cincinnati), Michael Gomer Stelljes (Mason, Ohio), John Gerhard Michael (Cincinnati), Janese Christine O'Brien Stickney (Wyoming, Ohio), Joshua Thomas Fung (Cincinnati), Paul Arlen Forshey (Cincinnati), Paul Dennis Trokhan (Hamilton, Ohio) and Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Layered, and optionally dispersible fibrous structures containing fibrous elements that exhibit different physical characteristics, such as different average d...