US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Nov. 4 for "Cleaning article having multi-layer gather strip element" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,194, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Cleaning article having multi-layer gather strip element" was invented by Nicola John Policicchio (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at an elongate bond. The gather strip element has plural layers folded upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bond. The folded layers provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing ar...