ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,285, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles with frangible pathways" was invented by Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Jeffry Rosiak (Loveland, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Kumardipti Chatterjee (Indian Hill, Ohio), Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio), Nicholas Alexander Taylor (Woodlawn, Ohio), Sally Lin Kilbacak (Cincinnati) and Andrew David Scholes (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles having a first belt and a second belt with one or more frangi...