US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on June 24 for "Absorbent article with conforming features" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,890, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with conforming features" was invented by Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag (Cincinnati), Shirdish Poondru (Cincinnati), John Lee Hammons (Hamilton, Ohio) and Kelyn Anne Arora (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article has a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a first plurality of conforming features in at least the absorbent core or a combination of the absorbent core and the topsheet. At least a portion of the are depressions, wherein the depressio...