ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,585, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Absorbent body with topsheet composite" was invented by Fengchun Ye (Beijing), Gueltekin Erdem (Beijing), Songmei Zhou (Beijing), Hui Liu (Beijing), Cornelia Sprengard-Eichel (Hofheim am Taunus, Germany) and Luigi Di Girolamo-Galasso (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an absorbent body for an absorbent article, comprising: 1) a first topsheet facing the wearer, the first topsheet being a water permeable nonwoven layer comprising eccentric bicomponent fibers, and having a basis weight of at least about 20 gsm, 2) a s...