ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,513, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Stretch layered sheet, disposable wearing article, and method and device for manufacturing stretch layered sheet" was invented by Kazutoshi Makimura (Osaka, Japan) and Miwa Koshijima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present layered stretchable sheet includes: a plurality of attachment portions at which a pair of non-woven fabrics and a film are thermally bonded together, wherein each one of the attachment portions includes at least one thermal bonding area where the pair of non-woven fabrics and the film are thermally bonded together; at least one ...