ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,606, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Wearable article comprising an elastic belt laminate" was invented by Jan Claussen (Wiesbaden, Germany), Zheng Bao (Beijing), Koichi Morimoto (Beijing), Lu Ye (Frankfurt, Germany), Nancy Melenda Messer Myers (Lakeside Park, Ky.), Gueltekin Erdem (Beijing) and Rodrigo Rosati (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable article comprising an elastic laminate with an inner web and an outer web being in a face to face relationship, and a skin-facing outer surface and a garment-facing outer surface. The elastic laminate has a total cal...