ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,628, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Absorbent articles including front and back waist panels with different stretch characteristics" was invented by Sally Lin Kilbacak (Cincinnati), Donald Carroll Roe (West Chester, Ohio), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (Cincinnati), Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati), Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio), Michael Brian Quade (Blue Ash, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Jeffry Rosiak (Loveland, Ohio) and Stephen Joseph Lange (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to absorbent articles with front and back waist...