US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Aug. 5 for "Absorbent article with extensible ears" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,003, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with extensible ears" was invented by Andrew James Sauer (Cincinnati), He Su (Beijing), Erica Lynne Locke (Cincinnati), Koichi Morimoto (Beijing) and Urmish Dalal (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article has a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; first and second opposing longitudinal side edges, a front waist region and a back waist region; and a first and second back ear extending outwardly from the first and longitudinal side edg...