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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2016
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Blanca Arizti, Schmitten, DE;
Erik John Hasenoehrl, Loveland, OH (US);
Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Independence, KY (US);
Mattias Schmidt, Idstein, DE;
Faiz Feisal Sherman, Mason, OH (US);
Steven Jeffrey Specht, Brookfeld, CT (US);
Grant Edward Anders Striemer, Fairfield Township, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an absorbent article for personal hygiene. More particularly, in one embodiment, the absorbent article absorbent article includes at least one property changing indicator. A detector device is also provided that includes at least one sensor. The sensor is adapted to detect the property change of the property change indicator in the absorbent article. In one particular embodiment, for example, the property changing indicator may include an optical property indicator such as a color change indicator and the sensor may include an optical sensor such as a color sensor.