Patent ID: 8668679

Claim:
A disposable wearable absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, a chassis, and at least one side, the side including a first portion and a second portion disposed outside of the first portion; an anchoring subsystem including a first side anchoring member with a first middle, disposed along a first pathway within the first portion and a second side anchoring member with a second middle disposed along a second pathway within the first portion, wherein the anchoring subsystem is configured to indirectly anchor the absorbent core to a wearer, and wherein at least some of the first middle is coextensive with at least some of the second middle, and wherein the coextensive area of the first middle and the second middle does not touch or overlap the chassis; wherein the article further comprises a back waist edge and a front waist edge, and wherein the entirety of both the first side anchoring member and the second side anchoring member are longitudinally inboard of the back waist edge and the front waist edge; wherein the side has one primary direction of extensibility; and wherein the first side anchoring member and the second side anchoring member each have a higher directional modulus of elasticity in their primary direction of extensibility than other parts of the side.