ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,704, issued on June 17, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Absorbent repositioning pad and method" was invented by Jeremy Fogel (Evanston, Ill.) and Rachel Sinde (Des Plaines, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent repositioning pad includes an upper layer including a liquid permeable material, and a lower layer having relatively lower friction surface than the upper layer. The absorbent repositioning pad further includes a first intermediate layer between the upper and lower layers and including an absorbent material, and a second intermediate layer between the first intermediate layer and the lower...