US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,557, issued on March 24, 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) and Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio).

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. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction ...