US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 15 for "Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,604, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with waist gasketing element and leg cuffs" was invented by Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Zachary Aaron Freije (Milford, Ohio), Cornelia Beate Martynus (Nidderau-Ostheim, Germany), Donald Carroll Roe (West Chester, Ohio), Christopher E. Kiger (Union Township, Ohio), Wolfgang E. Huhn (Blue Ash, Ohio) and Mark James Kline (Okeana, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an abs...