US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Jan. 27 for "Method for sterilizing and decontaminating post-consumer absorbent sanitary products polluted with organic compounds derived from human metabolism" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,438, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method for sterilizing and decontaminating post-consumer absorbent sanitary products polluted with organic compounds derived from human metabolism" was invented by Marcello Somma (Spoltore, Italy), Giorgio Vaccaro (Spoltore, Italy), Giorgio Pignalosa (Spoltore, Italy), Nicola D'Alessio (Spoltore, Italy), Tonino Caruso (Spoltore, Italy) and Laura Palombi (Spoltore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sterilizing and decontaminating post-consumer absorbent products polluted with organic compounds derived from human metabolism including drug re...