ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,940, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Absorbent articles comprising stretch laminates" was invented by Marcus Schonbeck (Versmold, Germany), Henner Sollmann (Gronau, Germany), Georg Baldauf (Laer, Germany), Urmish Popatlal Dalal (Milford, Ohio), Miguel Alberto Herrera (Loveland, Ohio) and Erica Lynne Locke (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article includes a chassis includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and at least one elastically elongatable panel joined to the chassis. The elastically elongatable panel...