US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 29 for "Diaper product adapted for collection of urine sample from an infant" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,159, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Diaper product adapted for collection of urine sample from an infant" was invented by Jacob Alan Barnhorst (Deerfield Township, Ohio), Masaharu Nishikawa (Cincinnati) and John Lee Hammons (Hamilton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable diaper product useful for collecting a urine sample from an infant is disclosed. In one example the product may have a liquid control structure overlying a liquid impermeable backsheet, with a plan surface area defining a volume coextensive therewith, wherein a portion of the volume defined by at least 50 percen...