ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,973, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Sanitary tissue product rolls" was invented by Kevin Mitchell (West Chester, Ohio), Robert Edward Reinerman (Cincinnati), Douglas Jay Barkey (Salem Township, Ohio), Mark Alan Green (Cincinnati), Paul Dennis Trokhan (Hamilton, Ohio), J. Michael Bills (Mason, Ohio), Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio) and Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and optionally Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tiss...