ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,825, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with conforming features" was invented by Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag (Cincinnati), Shirdish Poondru (Cincinnati), John Lee Hammons (Hamilton, Ohio) and Kelyn Anne Arora (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable absorbent article is described herein. The disposable absorbent article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent system disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. At least a portion of the has a plurality of conforming features such that the absorbent article has a blot residual value of less th...