ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,291, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Disposable absorbent article" was invented by Pietro Cecchetto (Fairfield, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differentl...