Lyne Deshaies, Toronto, Canada; Talia Greenberg, Toronto, Canada; Joanna Griffiths, Toronto, Canada; Steven Hudson, Toronto, Canada; Jeremy Jiang, Kunshan, China; Julie Power, Toronto, Canada; and Linda Kritikos, Toronto, Canada.
Assigned to Knix Wear Inc., Ontario, Canada.

Filed: 4/11/22
Issued: 2/28/23

A reusable absorbent accessory configured to be worn by a wearer and to be washed and re-worn numerous times, the reusable absorbent accessory comprising: a plurality of adhesive bonds within a bonded region of the reusable absorbent accessory; a reusable absorbent accessory base, wherein the reusable absorbent accessory base defines a reusable absorbent accessory lateral edge of the reusable absorbent accessory; and a moisture capture assembly bonded to the reusable absorbent accessory base within the bonded region of the reusable absorbent accessory by at least a subset of the plurality of adhesive bonds, wherein the moisture capture assembly has an assembly interior side that faces the wearer when the reusable absorbent accessory is worn by the wearer and an assembly exterior side that faces away from the wearer when the reusable absorbent accessory is worn by the wearer, and wherein the moisture capture assembly comprises at least: a moisture retention portion configured to absorb and retain moisture from the wearer; and an anti-leak portion configured to restrict moisture from exiting the moisture retention portion and positioned toward the assembly exterior side of the moisture capture assembly relative to the moisture retention portion; wherein the reusable absorbent accessory has a perimeter, and wherein the bonded region extends fully around the perimeter of the reusable absorbent accessory; and wherein the plurality of adhesive bonds comprises: an internal peripheral bond positioned on the assembly interior side and that operates to bond the moisture capture assembly to the reusable absorbent accessory base; and an external peripheral bond positioned on the assembly exterior side and that operates to bond the moisture capture assembly to the reusable absorbent accessory base.