US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 8 for "Absorbent article having waist gasketing element" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,582, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article having waist gasketing element" was invented by Kumardipti Chatterjee (Indian Hill, Ohio), Tina Brown (Cincinnati), Joseph Hung Lam (Mason, Ohio) and Miguel Caballero (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article for wearing about the lower torso of a wearer includes a waist gasketing element disposed in one of the first or the second waist regions and joined to the chassis in a chassis attachment region. The waist gasketing element comprises an outboard lateral edge and an inboard lateral edge. The chassis attachment r...