ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,361, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Highly extensible nonwoven webs and absorbent articles having such webs" was invented by Han Xu (Cincinnati), Meganne Frisch (Cincinnati), Jaroslav Kohut (Znojmo, Czech Republic), Sascha Kreisel (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jiri Kummer (Znojmo, Czech Republic), Fang Liu (Mason, Ohio), Michael J. Roddy (Cincinnati), Patricia Rolon (Cincinnati) and Eric R. Schurdak (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-com...