ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,367, issued on May 20, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Attachable-type disposable wearing article" was invented by Yuichi Yamashita (Ehime, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachable-type disposable wearing article including waist elastic members fixed to an end flap, standup gather parts located on opposed widthwise sides, a linear first bending part extending in the width direction from a front edge of one of the back laid-down portions to a front edge of the other, and a linear second bending part extending in the width direction and spaced forwardly apart from the first bending part, a first area adjacen...