ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,618, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles having a belt portion with a texture zone having a texture ratio" was invented by Ronald Joseph Zink (Blue Ash, Ohio), Farihah Ibrahim (Cincinnati), Sarah Marie Wade (Springfield, Ohio), Gary Dean LaVON (Liberty, Ohio), Tina Marie Glahn (West Chester, Ohio), Kaoru Ishihara (West Chester, Ohio) and Diana Woehnl Juratovac (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a core disposed at least partially intermed...