ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,661, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Absorbent article with closure mechanism" was invented by Christine Elisabeth Schober (Lauda-Konigshofen, Germany), Melek Yildirim (Rheinland Pfalz, Germany), Ekaterina Ponomarenko (Mechernich, Germany), Andrea Lieselotte Benner (Schwalbach, Germany) and Natalia Nikolaewna Gaiko (Kronberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an absorbent pant that includes longitudinally opposing first and second waist regions and a crotch region between the first and second waist regions. Longitudinally opposing first and second waist panels are ...