US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on May 12 for "Absorbent article" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,821, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article" was invented by Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag (Cincinnati), John David Norcom (Cincinnati), Shirdish Poondru (Cincinnati), Matthew Howard Wasson (Cincinnati) and Rong Deng (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core structure disposed therebetween. The absorbent core structure includes an upper nonwoven layer comprising polymer fibers and having a basis weight of from about 35 to about 85 gsm; a lower nonwoven layer comprising polymer fibers and havin...