ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,002, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Disposable wearing article" was invented by Wataru Nakamura (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable wearing article has a top sheet including a skin-contacting region which is in contact with skin of a wearer. The top sheet is a perforated nonwoven fabric having a hole-arranging area in which the holes penetrating a front surface of the perforated nonwoven fabric and a back surface thereof are arranged in a predetermined pattern. The skin-contacting region has a liquid-containing area containing a hydrophilic skin care liquid, the hole-arranging...