US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on May 20 for "Absorbent article with a channel-forming area and a masking layer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,370, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with a channel-forming area and a masking layer" was invented by Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi (Hessen, Germany), Matthias Konrad Hippe (Sulzbach, Germany), Aniruddha Chatterjee (Kelkheim, Germany), Adrien Grenier (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Andrea Peri (Kronberg, Germany), Udo Friedel Schoenborn (Bad Soden, Germany) and Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Kelkheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core comprising an absorbent material and a core wrap is provid...