US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 29 for "Methods and apparatuses for making absorbent articles having contoured belts" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,091, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods and apparatuses for making absorbent articles having contoured belts" was invented by Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati) and Michael Devin Long (Springfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for assembling disposable pant diapers having contoured elastic belts. During the assembly process, opposing end regions of chassis are connected with the elastic belts in the form of first and second continuous elastic laminates. The chassis are then folded to place the elastic laminates into a facing relat...