US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on June 2 for "Method and apparatus for bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,711, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method and apparatus for bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier" was invented by Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati), Michael Brian Quade (Blue Ash, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Urmish Popatlal Dalal (Milford, Ohio) and Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles...