ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,820, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Feminine hygiene pad with differing functional arrangements of topsheet apertures" was invented by Debora Christine Ebert (Blanchester, Ohio), Misael Omar Aviles (Hamilton, Ohio) and Rong Deng (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feminine hygiene pad is disclosed. The disclosed pad has a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis, and has a topsheet including a nonwoven web, a backsheet, and an absorbent structure between the topsheet and the backsheet. The nonwoven web includes at least a first arrangement of first apertures having a first average size,...