US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 1 for "Shaped nonwoven" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,244, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Shaped nonwoven" was invented by Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio) and Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property, wherein the intensive property is one or more o...