ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,363, issued on May 20.
"Semipermanent menstrual pad" was invented by Eun Ju Lee (Yangsan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semipermanent menstrual pad may include: a genital area cover configured to cover a female genital area and having a storage space recessed at a center of the genital area cover to store menstrual blood, and a lid part configured to cover an upper portion of the storage space to prevent the menstrual blood introduced into the storage space from leaking to the outside, in which the lid part is coupled to or separated from the genital area cover in an attachable/detachable manner and includes a throu...