US Patent Issued to Fameccanica.Data on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for producing absorbent sanitary articles and relative absorbent sanitary product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,898, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. (San Giovanni Teatino Chieti, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for producing absorbent sanitary articles and relative absorbent sanitary product" was invented by Gabriele Sablone (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy), Massimiliano Rossetti (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy) and Vincenzo Pezzotta (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for producing pant-like absorbent sanitary articles with longitudinal elastic bands without side welds, wherein a length of the elastic bands is different from a length of an absorbent body."

The patent was filed...