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U.S. Patent No. 11,090,202
October 11, 2021
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Timothy Ian Mullane, Union, KY; Kelyn Anne Arora, Cincinnati, OH; Jill Marlene Orr, Liberty Township, OH; Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester, OH; Jennifer Schutte, Cincinnati, OH; John Brian Strube, Okeana, OH; Ann Cecilia Tapp, West Chester, OH; Rachael Eden Walther, Union, KY; Amanda Margaret Bicking, Cincinnati, OH; Jennifer Lynn Dusold, Cincinnati, OH; and Margaret Elizabeth Porter, Cincinnati, OH. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH. Filed: 4/17/19 Issued: 8/17/21 A patterned apertured web comprising: a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured web; and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured web, wherein at least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures; wherein the patterned apertured web has an Effective Open Area in the range of about 5% to about 40%, according to an Aperture Test; wherein the plurality of apertures are non-homogeneous in a repeat unit such that at least two apertures of the plurality of apertures have a different size, a different shape, or a different Absolute Feret Angle, according to the Aperture Test; wherein the patterned apertured web comprises at least two layers; wherein the at least two layers comprise a first layer and a second layer; wherein the second layer has a different hydrophobicity than the first layer; wherein the patterned apertured web comprises bicomponent spunbond fibers, bicomponent carded fibers, meltblown fibers, nanofibers, and/or crimped fibers; wherein the bicomponent spunbond fibers, the bicomponent carded fibers, the meltblown fibers, the nanofibers, and/or the crimped fibers comprise polyethylene and/or polypropylene; wherein the patterned apertured web comprises a portion of a topsheet or a portion of a garment-facing surface; and wherein at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures form an enclosed shape, wherein a perimeter of the enclosed shape defines a concavity, and wherein the enclosed shape comprises at least six apertures of the plurality of apertures.
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