US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Sept. 22 for "Floor cleaning pad" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,685, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Floor cleaning pad" was invented by Nicola John Policicchio (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning pad including a floor sheet, wherein said floor sheet has at least two regions of absorbent materials including a first region having a relatively medium absorbency material and a second region, wherein the second region includes one or both of a relatively low absorbency material and a relatively high absorbency material. The first region and said second region together have a combined planar area. The first region constitutes from more th...