MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517032529 A) filed by Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan, on April 2, for 'absorbent article.'

Inventor(s) include Onishi, Kazuaki.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that exhibits an excellent absorption rate when repeatedly absorbing bodily fluids and that is unlikely to result in an increase in thickness. An absorbent article (1) is equipped with an absorbent core (9), and is characterized in that: the absorbent core (9) is comparted by a widthwise cent...