ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,046, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods for producing through-fluid bonded nonwoven webs" was invented by Jonathan P. Brennan (Owensboro, Ky.), Jeffrey A. Auer (Cincinnati), David Wesley Monebrake (Cincinnati), Andreas J. Dreher (Cincinnati) and Antonius Lambertus DeBeer (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a soft and lofty continuous fiber nonwoven web is provided. The method includes providing first and second, different molten polymers to a spinneret defining a plurality of orifices and flowing a fluid intermediate the spinneret and a moving porous member...