ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,522, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Pant-type absorbent article with waist guard" was invented by Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Kelkheim, Germany), Lan Luan (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Qiuxia Yang (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Ekaterina Ponomarenko (Mechernich, Germany) and Wolfgang Edgar Huhn (Blue Ash, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a pant type absorbent article having a waist guard on the back elastic belt, wherein the waist guard comprises a waist guard elastic portion. The absorbent article has a Blowout Percent Leakage of less than 1% when subjected to the Blowout M...