US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 22 for "Absorbent article with a distribution layer comprising channels" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,941, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with a distribution layer comprising channels" was invented by Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi (Oberursel, Germany), Jorg Endres (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Alexander Fedotov (Schwalbach, Germany), Julien Rene Garcia (Frankfurt, Germany) and Ryo Minoguchi (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article such as a diaper extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal axis (80') and a transversal direction (90') perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and comprising a distribution layer (54) between a topshee...