ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,515, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Three dimensional nonwoven and absorbent articles having the same" was invented by Zhe Liu (Beijing), Songmei Zhou (Beijing), Meng Wang (Beijing) and Qi Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a three dimensional nonwoven comprising a protruded area comprising a first area having a first light reflectance and a second area having a second light reflectance. The three dimensional nonwoven comprises a recess comprising a third area having a third light reflectance, wherein the first light reflectance is different from ...