ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,173, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Article with visual effect" was invented by Joseph Craig Lester (Liberty Township, Ohio), Nicole Ashley Rizzo (Cincinnati), Marc Andrew Mamak (Mason, Ohio), Joseph Henry Nurre (West Chester, Ohio), Philip A. Sawin (Wyoming, Ohio) and Jeffrey Thomas Grothaus (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Article having a body portion including one or more walls surrounding an interior space. The one or more walls have an inner surface, an outer surface, a wall thickness, a transparent portion, and one or more aesthetic regions having oblong voids provided betw...