ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,823, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article having flex bond channel regions" was invented by Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag (Cincinnati), Rong Deng (Mason, Ohio) and John David Norcom (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article having a front end region, a back end region, and a middle region disposed between the front and back end regions. The absorbent article includes a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core structure disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and a flex bond channel region formed in at least the middle region. The absorbent ...