US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 20 for "Durable underwear adapted for use with absorbent component" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,051, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Durable underwear adapted for use with absorbent component" was invented by Frederick Michael Langdon (Cincinnati), Bret Darren Seitz (West Chester, Ohio) and Janice Faye Swinford (Blue Ash, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A durable underwear brief panty adapted to accommodate an absorbent component is disclosed. The panty may include a crotch portion that exhibits a Poisson Contraction Effect upon lateral stretching of 0.40 or less. A combination of a brief panty and an absorbent pad, and an array including a brief panty product and an absorbent pad ...