US Patent Issued to ZUIKO on March 24 for "Reclosable underwear-type disposable article for wearing and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,563, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reclosable underwear-type disposable article for wearing and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Toyoshi Umebayashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While in an unused folded state of a worn article, flaps are engaged with second touch fasteners in a protruding end portion via first touch fasteners, and the flaps are folded so that the protruding end portion comes closer to a proximal end portion, and while in a worn state in which the worn article is used, the flaps can be developed so that the first touch fasteners of the protruding end po...