US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Nov. 25 for "Methods and apparatuses for making elastomeric laminates with elastic strands unwound from spools on surface unwinders" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,512, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods and apparatuses for making elastomeric laminates with elastic strands unwound from spools on surface unwinders" was invented by Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati) and Joseph Allen Eckstein (Sunman, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for assembling elastomeric laminates, wherein elastic material may be stretched and joined with either or both first and second substrates. First spools are rotated to unwind first elastic strands from a first unwinder in a machine direction. The first elastic strands are positioned b...