ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,071, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Attachable-type disposable wearing article" was invented by Hiroki Matsuoka (Ehime, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachable-type disposable wearing article including a waist stretchable region having waist elastic members and a first and second sheet layers sandwiching the same, and stretchable in the width direction and contracting in the width direction, the wearing article further including joined zones of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer and unjoined zones of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer provided continuously f...