US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Sept. 22 for "Sheet materials and articles comprising TiO2 and laser marking" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,477, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Sheet materials and articles comprising TiO2 and laser marking" was invented by Matthew Aaron Neumann (Montgomery, Ohio), Joseph Craig Lester (Liberty Township, Ohio), Marc Andrew Mamak (Mason, Ohio), Philip Andrew Sawin (Wyoming, Ohio), Erika Arlene Womack (Cincinnati), Ariel Lebron (Cincinnati) and Joseph Henry Nurre (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet of material that is marked with a pulsed laser, the sheet of material having an outer edge and an inner edge separated by a core. The distance from the outer edge to the inner edg...