Patents by Inventor Roxanne Marie Zuleger

Roxanne Marie Zuleger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Absorbent article with more conformable elastics
    Patent number: 6248097
    Abstract: An absorbent article (10) which includes a backsheet layer (30) having a pair of laterally opposed and longitudinally extending side margins (20). Each side margin has an outwardly concave, terminal side edge contour 15 located at appointed leg opening regions (17) in an intermediate portion (16) of the side margin. Each concave side edge contour (15) has a selected longitudinal extent along a length dimension (26) of the article (10). A liquid permeable topsheet layer (28) is connected in a superposed facing relation to the backsheet layer (30), and an absorbent body (32) is sandwiched between the topsheet layer (28) and the backsheet layer (30). A separately provided gusset-flap composite member (19) is connected to at least one of the backsheet and topsheet layers along each of the leg opening regions (17). The gusset-flap member (19) provides a leg gusset section (142) and a containment flap section (144), and is distinctively configured to provide improved leakage resistance, fit and comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark John Beitz, Monica Lynn Bontrager, Barbara Ann Gossen, Chris Lee Heikkinen, Daniel Hoo, David Andrae Justmann, Richard Francis Keller, Cynthia Helen Nordness, Douglas Paul Rammer, Lorry Francis Sallee, Raymond Gerard St. Louis, David James VanEperen, Cynthia Louise Wyngaard, Sandra Marie Yarbrough, Roxanne Marie Zuleger, Steven Scott Friderich, Eric Scott Kepner, Kuo-Shu Edward Chang