US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 20 for "Body-conformable absorbent article" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,044, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Body-conformable absorbent article" was invented by Frederick Michael Langdon (Cincinnati), Timothy Ian Mullane (Union, Ky.) and Bret Darren Seitz (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article having a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent structure comprising an open-celled absorbent foam material disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent article has been incrementally stretched along at least a first and second stretch direction, such that the topsheet and backsheet each compri...