ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,868, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with fastening component for disposal" was invented by Edisson Reinaldo Subdiaga Rondon (Bad Soden, Germany), Petra Ballenberger (Kronberg, Germany), JoBeth Martin (Cincinnati), Koichi Morimoto (Cincinnati), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Susanne Osbahr (Idstein, Germany) and Ekaterina Ponomarenko (Mechernich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article having a fastening component including a plurality of hooks. The fastening component is positioned adjacent to the proximal edge of at least one of the first belt or ...