US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 6 for "Absorbent article comprising a lower acquisition and distribution layer" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,867, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article comprising a lower acquisition and distribution layer" was invented by Sascha Kreisel (Frankfurt, Germany), Gueltekin Erdem (Beijing), Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Kelkheim, Germany), Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi (Oberursel, Germany), Yi Yuan (Beijing) and Adrien Grenier (Schwalbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet, an absorbent material between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer optionally mixe...