US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Feb. 18 for "Absorbent article with elasticized waist region" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,294, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with elasticized waist region" was invented by Kumardipti Chatterjee (Indian Hill, Ohio) and Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and an elasticized waist gasketing element. The elasticized waist gasketing element has a lateral outboard edge and a longitudinal array of elastic members. The longitudinal array includes a primary waist elastic member disposed inboard of the waist edg...