US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Nov. 18 for "Absorbent core with profiled distribution of absorbent material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,111, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent core with profiled distribution of absorbent material" was invented by Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi (Oberursel, Germany), Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger (Bad Soden, Germany), Joerg Endres (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Julien Rene Garcia (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent core for absorbent articles such as diapers comprising a core wrap comprising a top side and a bottom side, an absorbent material between the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap, a first and second longitudinally-extending channel-forming areas d...