ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,070, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Reusable absorbent inserts and assemblies" was invented by Yin Chen (Konigstein, Germany), Udo Friedel Schoenborn (Bad Soden, Germany) and Deepika Dayal Mathur (Hessen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to reusable absorbent inserts, assemblies, and methods for use, the inserts including a configurable pad and pad collection sleeve. The configurable pad includes a first section and a second section, the second section separated from the first section at least partially by a folding guide. The configurable pad has an unfolded pad pl...