US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 22 for "Sanitary tissue product with a shaped line of weakness" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,038, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Sanitary tissue product with a shaped line of weakness" was invented by Katie Kristine Glass (Maineville, Ohio), Angela Marie Leimbach (Hamilton, Ohio) and Gustav Andre Mellin (Amberley Village, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll of sanitary tissue product comprising a shaped line of weakness, where the roll of sanitary tissue product may exhibit a Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Strength of between about 8 g and about 20 g, as measured by the Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Force Method, and wherein the sanitary tissue product may exhibit...