US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Nov. 4 for "Pant-type absorbent article and manufacturing method thereof" (Chinese, Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,545, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Pant-type absorbent article and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Xu Gao (Beijing), Masayuki Tsuji (Kakogawa, Japan), Koichi Morimoto (Beijing), Ling Tong (Beijing) and Abhishek Surushe (Kelkheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pant type absorbent article includes a back elastic belt comprising a waist guard portion extending towards the crotch region from a closed base line towards an open edge, wherein the waist guard portion is formed by a first inner waist fold extending from a second inner waist fold, the second inner waist fold e...