US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on June 30 for "Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,501, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs" was invented by Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Zachary Aaron Freije (Milford, Ohio), Cornelia Beate Martynus (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Donald Carroll Roe (West Chester, Ohio), Andrew James Sauer (Cincinnati), Christopher Erin Kiger (Union Township, Ohio) and Sara Lyn Giovanni (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an ...