US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on June 30 for "Fibrous structures and methods for making same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,926, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fibrous structures and methods for making same" was invented by William Ellis Bailey (Union Township, Ohio), Ward William Ostendorf (West Chester, Ohio), Anthony Paul Bankemper (Green Township, Ohio), Douglas Jay Barkey (Salem Township, Ohio), J. Michael Bills (Mason, Ohio), Paul Dennis Trokhan (Hamilton, Ohio) and Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fibrous structures having a surface pattern of a continuous knuckle region and a plurality of discrete pillow regions such that the fibrous structures that retain suffic...