ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,828, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).
"CD extensible nonwoven composite" was invented by John H. Conrad (Alpharetta, Ga.) and James R. Fitts Jr. (Gainesville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonwoven composite that has a dimension in a machine direction and a cross-machine direction is provided. The composite comprises a nonwoven facing positioned adjacent to an elastic film. The nonwoven facing contains a spunbond web that is formed by necking a base spunbond web. The base spunbond web includes a plurality of fibers generally oriented in the machine direction and exhibiting a mach...