ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,391, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to M.D. VIOLA MACCHINE S.R.L. (Valle Salimbene, Italy).
"Device and method for applying absorbing inserts in a plant and process for the production of pull-up diapers" was invented by Davide Viola (Valle Salimbene, Italy), Marco Viola (Valle Salimbene, Italy) and Andrea Viola (Valle Salimbene, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying absorbing inserts in a process for the production of pull-up diapers, includes: feeding a composite elastic web, including at least one elastic element, along a path and according to an advancing direction, conferring said composite elastic web with ...