ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,013, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods and apparatuses for making elastomeric laminates" was invented by Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati), Joseph Allen Eckstein (Sunman, Ind.) and Kazuaki Tameishi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for making elastomeric laminates that may be used as components of absorbent articles. Aspects of the methods for assembling elastomeric laminates may utilize clastic strands supplied from beams that may be joined with first and second substrates, and may be configured to carry out various types of operations, suc...