ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,430, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Article of manufacture making system" was invented by Christopher Michael Young (Loveland, Ohio), Steven Lee Barnholtz (West Chester, Ohio) and Fei Wang (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives."

The patent was filed on Aug. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/452,703.

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