ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,267, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Methods for making unit dose articles" was invented by Aleksey Mikhailovich Pinyayev (Cincinnati) and Travis Kyle Hodgdon (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an object includes steps of forming a non-woven mat from one or more strands of meltable material and subsequently forming discrete units from the non-woven mat where portions of the surface of the formed discrete units are locally densified."
The patent was filed on Feb. 11, 2019, under Application No. 16/271,923.
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