ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,321, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Shaped nonwoven" was invented by Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio), Kelyn Anne Arora (Cincinnati), Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati) and Nathan Ray Whitely (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an int...