S Patent No.: 8,674,168 B2    
Miguel Alvaro Robles, Wyoming, OH, US; Mattias Schmidt, Idstein, Germany; Kuang-Kai Liu, Cincinnati, OH, US; and Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester, OH, US. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH, US.
Filed: 12/23/09
Issued: 3/18/14
A disposable wearable absorbent article, comprising: a topsheet; an absorbent core; an outer cover; a longitudinal centerline and a lateral centerline that cross at a center; a first visual fullness indicating area, having an inboard end and an outboard end, configured to change from a first initial color to a first subsequent color progressively starting from the inboard end moving toward the outboard end and along a wet edge, when indicating the presence of a bodily exudate, wherein at least a portion of the first visual fullness indicating area is visible from outside of the disposable wearable absorbent article when the article is worn by a wearer; and one or more parts of the first visual fullness indicator is disposed near, at, or overlapping the center; the inboard end and the outboard end of the first visual fullness indicating area are inboard the absorbent core; and at least, a second visual fullness indicating area, having an inboard end and an outboard end, configured to change from a second initial color to a second subsequent color progressively starting from the inboard end moving toward the outboard end and along a wet edge, when indicating the presence of a bodily exudate, wherein the second subsequent color is visually distinguishable from the first subsequent color, and wherein at least a portion of the second visual fullness indicating area is visible from outside of the disposable wearable absorbent article when the article is worn by a wearer; wherein the outboard end of the second visual fullness indicating area is outboard of the absorbent core and the inboard end of the second visual fullness indicating area is inboard the absorbent core.