US Patent Issued to UNICHARM on Aug. 26 for "Absorbent product provided with feces indicator and urine indicator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,899, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNICHARM Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Absorbent product provided with feces indicator and urine indicator" was invented by Tomomi Isogai (Kagawa, Japan), Shota Uto (Kagawa, Japan) and Takuya Miyama (Kagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article includes: a liquid absorbent body; a feces indicator that visually changes between two colors, the feces indicator changing, on contact with feces, from a pre-feces-contact color to a post-feces-contact color; and a urine indicator that visually changes between two colors, the urine indicator changing, on contact with urine, from a pre-urin...