US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Dec. 16 for "Absorbent article having a waist gasketing element" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,232, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article having a waist gasketing element" was invented by Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (Cincinnati), Thorsten Rinnert (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Urmish Popatlal Dalal (Cincinnati), Darren Lee Goad (Cold Spring, Ky.), Michael Brian Quade (Blue Ash, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati) and Thomas F. Gross (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles having a waist gasketing element, with the gasketing element having an adhesive zone and one or more adhesive-free...