ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,732, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with function-formed topsheet, and method for manufacturing" was invented by Kelyn Anne Arora (Cincinnati), Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio), Misael Omar Aviles (Cincinnati), Lennie CruzMurphy (Cincinnati), Adrien Grenier (Frankfurt, Germany), John Lee Hammons (Hamilton, Ohio), Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati) and Nathan Ray Whitely (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web material having an ordered arrangement of zones, ...