ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,267, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Shaped nonwoven" was invented by Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio), Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati), Adrien Grenier (Rheinlandstrasse, Germany), Martin Ian James (Cincinnati) and Stefano Michele Sinigaglia (Wyoming, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and ...