US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 14 for "Pant-type absorbent article and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese, Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,395, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Pant-type absorbent article and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Xu Gao (Beijing), Ling Tong (Beijing), Abhishek Prakash Surushe (Kelkhelm, Germany), Koichi Morimoto (Beijing), Hiroshi Fujikawa (Himeji, Japan), Masayuki Tsuji (Kakogawa, Japan), DonSub Lee (Kobe, Japan) and Kazuaki Tameishi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a pant type absorbent article having a waist guard portion on the front and/or back elastic belt, wherein the waist guard portion has a specific location in view of the location from the distal edge t...