ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,255, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Unicharm Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Diaper for pet" was invented by Yumi Koido (Kanonji, Japan), Daisuke Komatsubara (Kanonji, Japan) and Hitomi Nakashima (Kanonji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pet diaper extends in a lateral direction along a waist of a pet and in a longitudinal direction from a ventral side to a dorsal side of the pet, the lateral direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and the pet diaper includes: a main body including: an absorbent core; and a tail hole having a longitudinally elongated shape with a largest opening width in the longitudinal direction t...