ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,561, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles with frangible pathways with simultaneously propagating tear zones" was invented by Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Jeffry Rosiak (Loveland, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio) and Nicholas Alexander Taylor (Woodlawn, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles including a first belt and a second belt, the first belt and/or the second belt comprising one or more frangible pathways. The f...