ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,981, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Package of absorbent articles utilizing a shaped nonwoven" was invented by Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio) and Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package of personal care articles. Each of the personal care articles has a nonwoven substrate as a component. The nonwoven substrate can have a first surface defining a plane of the first surface and a non-regular pattern of a plurality of three-dimensional features extending outwardly from the plane of the first surface. The non-regular pattern can include a first zone of first three...