US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Nov. 25 for "Absorbent article with side seam bond" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,518, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Absorbent article with side seam bond" was invented by Jongmin Mun (Nanjing, China), Ning Ye (Nanjing, China), Xixi Miao (Nanjing, China), Qi Dai (Nanjing, China), Xiaomin Liu (Shanghai), Weizhi Guo (Tianjin, China) and Jason Sieck (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Absorbent articles (30) have bonded materials and bond patterns. One of the absorbent articles (30) has a bond pattern (150a-150d) comprising bonds (151,153,155,155a-155d). The bond pattern (150a-150d) comprises a longitudinally extending series of bonds (151,153), which compr...