ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,661, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fibrous structures comrpising discrete cells" was invented by Kathryn Christian Kien (Cincinnati), Charles Allen Redd (Harrison, Ohio), Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio), Osman Polat (Montgomery, Ohio), Anthony Paul Bankemper (Green Township, Ohio), David W. Loebker (Cincinnati) and Mireilly Rosadobonilla (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Belts and fibrous structures including discrete cells having one or more legs and/or one or more concavities in certain patterns or Cell Groups. The cells may be discrete knuckles or pillows and the f...