ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,999, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RKW SE (Mannheim, Germany).
"Elastic diaper element" was invented by Christoph Willing (Vreden, Germany), Paul Waller (Rosenheim, Germany), Michael Scherer (Flintsbach im Inn, Germany) and Reinhard Epping (Gronau-Epe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic diaper element that includes an elastic layer (1) and at least one layer (2) made of a nonwoven fabric. The element has connection portions (5) between the elastic layer (1) and the non-woven layer (2). The non-woven layer (2) is corrugated in the non-stretched state and has portions (6) that act as a reserve allowing stretching. The...