ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,440, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ONTEX BV (Buggenhout, Belgium) and ONEX GROUP NV (Erembodegem, Belgium).
"Elasticised absorbent article" was invented by Dries Cobbaert (Liedekerke, Belgium) and Nathalie Van Sande (Maarkedal, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an absorbent article (1), preferably an incontinence pant-like diaper, comprising a chassis (2), a front waist region (3), a back waist region (4) and a crotch region (5) extending between said front and back waist regions (3,4); wherein the front and back waist regions (3,4) are joinable to each other and wherein, when joined, a wais...