US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 29 for "Apparatuses and methods for making absorbent articles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,319, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Apparatuses and methods for making absorbent articles" was invented by Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio) and Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for manufacturing absorbent articles, wherein discrete zones of protrusions may be formed on a substrate. In some configurations, the protrusions may be formed as hooks. When forming the discrete zones of protrusions, localized speed variances may be imparted to the advancing substrate to ensure the adequate time t...