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U.S. Patent No. 9,597,237
May 31, 2017
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
David John Enz, Neenah, WI; Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Appleton, WI; Robert Lee Popp, Greenville, WI; David Fleger Bishop, Appleton, WI; and Wendy Lynn Vandyke, Appleton, WI. Assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc, Neenah, WI. Filed: 12/31/13 Issued: 3/21/17 An absorbent article comprising: an absorbent assembly including longitudinally opposite ends, transversely opposite sides, a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions, a liquid permeable inner layer for facing a wearer, an outer layer for facing away from the wearer, an absorbent body disposed between the inner and outer layers, at least one of the inner layer and outer layer defining the longitudinally opposite ends and transversely opposite sides of the absorbent assembly, the absorbent body having a pair of longitudinally extending sides and a pair of transversely extending ends, each of the longitudinally extending sides of the absorbent body being spaced inward from a respective one of the transversely opposite sides of the absorbent assembly; a pair of ears extending transversely outward from the opposite sides of the absorbent assembly in the back waist region, each of the ears comprising a primary first fastening-component that is selectively engagable with a primary second fastening-component in the front waist region of the absorbent assembly in a wear configuration of the article; and a pair of spaced-apart secondary first fastening-components disposed on the primary second fastening-component in the front waist region of the absorbent assembly, each of the secondary first fastening-components being selectively engageable with respective secondary second fastening-components in a wear configuration of the article; wherein the secondary first fastening-components fit into respective fastener regions, each fastener region defined by an outline surrounding the secondary first-fastening components, wherein each outline has a waist edge and an opposite leg edge connected by an outer edge and an inner edge; wherein the waist edge of each outline is spaced from a waist edge of the primary second fastening-component; wherein the length of the outer edge is shorter than the length of the inner edge; and wherein the primary first fastening-components do not overlap the secondary first-fastening components in a wear configuration of the article.
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