ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,964, issued on July 15, was assigned to Unicharm Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Cat diaper" was invented by Daisuke Komatsubara (Kanonji, Japan) and Yumi Matsumoto (Kanonji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cat diaper has a lateral direction along a waistline of a cat and a longitudinal direction orthogonal to the lateral direction, and includes: a body portion that has a top-surface sheet, a back-surface sheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the top-surface sheet and the back-surface sheet; and a tail hole formed in the body portion, the tail hole including a hole body through which a tail of the cat is inserted, the hole body...