ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,708, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Absorbent article with ear portion" was invented by Nelson Edward Greening II (Cincinnati), Erica Lynne Locke (Cincinnati), Urmish Popatlal Dalal (Milford, Ohio), Marcus Schonbeck (Versmold, Germany), Maria Oude-Lansink (Gronau, Germany), Jan Michael Trinkaus (Euskirchen, Germany), Marius Janas (Oberhausen, Germany) and Marcel Grossmann (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions. The absorbent article further ...