ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,513, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent articles and methods and apparatuses for making absorbent articles with frangible pathways" was invented by Uwe Schneider (Cincinnati), Jeromy Thomas Raycheck (South Lebanon, Ohio), Michael Devin Long (Harrison Township, Ohio), Jeffry Rosiak (Loveland, Ohio), Jason Edward Naylor (Loveland, Ohio), Keith Richard Willhaus (Cincinnati) and Nicholas Alexander Taylor (Woodlawn, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles including elastic laminates, and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses for maki...