ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,937, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Wearable article having elastic belt" was invented by Koichi Morimoto (Beijing), Ling Tong (Beijing) and Chunmin Cheng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a main body and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt. At least some of the elastic bodies may be arranged in an array, the array defined as meeting: a) one array is formed by 2-10 elastic bodies; b) each elastic body within one array is disposed in an inner-interval between each elastic body of 2-4 mm; and c) one specific array d...