US Patent Issued to LIVEDO on Jan. 13 for "Disposable absorbent product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,286, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LIVEDO Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Disposable absorbent product" was invented by Kenji Nakaoka (Tokushima, Japan) and Masatoshi Ikeuchi (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent product includes first welds that slope downward toward an outer side in a width direction, second welds that slope downward toward the outer side in the width direction, and third welds that slope upward toward the outer side in the width direction. A weld group includes one first weld, one second weld, and one third weld that are adjacent to each other in the width direction. An upper end of t...