US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 14 for "Method for forming protrusions in a substrate used to manufacture absorbent articles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,046, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method for forming protrusions in a substrate used to manufacture absorbent articles" was invented by Todd Douglas Lenser (Liberty Township, Ohio), Randall Allen Myers (Fairfield, Ohio), Russell Andrew Hayden (New Richmond, Ohio) and Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for altering a portion of a substrate. The method includes providing a first device including an outer surface and a second device including a source of vibration energy. The method also includes forming a nip between the source of vibrati...