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Absorbent Article with Absorbent Structure Having Anisotropic Rigidity:

U.S. Patent No. 11,376,168

Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Cincinnati, OH; Clint Adam Morrow, Union, KY; Dean Larry DuVal, Lebanon, OH; Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr., Wyoming, OH; and Remo Bellucci, Blue Ash, OH.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 11/4/16
Issued: 7/5/22

An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core comprising an absorbent structure, wherein the absorbent structure comprises a nonwoven fabric and discrete pieces of open cell foam that have been formed about fibers of the nonwoven fabric so as to enrobe them, and the absorbent structure exhibits a Cross Direction bending rigidity between 0.3 gf*cm 2/cm and 1.6 gf*cm 2/cm and a Machine Direction bending rigidity between 1.5 gf* 2/cm and 14 gf*cm 2/cm.

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