US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on May 13 for "Absorbent article with a lower intermediate layer partially bonded to the absorbent core" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,821, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with a lower intermediate layer partially bonded to the absorbent core" was invented by Adrien Grenier (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi (Hessen, Germany), Aniruddha Chatterjee (Kelkheim, Germany), Matthias Konrad Hippe (Sulzbach, Germany), Andrea Peri (Kronberg, Germany), Udo Friedel Schoenborn (Bad Soden, Germany), Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Kelkheim, Germany), Amy Lynn Tally (Cold Spring, Ky.) and Maik Tremel (Schwalbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable topshe...