Patent ID: 7128732

Claim:
An absorbent article, comprising: (a) an absorbent pad having a top sheet surface and an opposite bottom sheet surface, said top sheet surface having a length and a width configured to fit the pudendal region of a woman; (b) a liquid-impermeable baffle adjacent to said bottom sheet surface, said baffle having a length and a width covering said bottom sheet surface; and (c) a pair of pre-formed cuffs, each cuff having a biased engaged position in direct biased contact against said baffle for holding a side surface of a crotch portion of an undergarment, said undergarment having an undergarment elastic leg opening edge, wherein said pre-formed cuffs are formed in a garment-facing side of said absorbent pad into which said undergarment elastic leg opening edge can be tucked to protect said undergarment from staining.