ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,318, issued on Feb. 10.
"Infant training devices and methods for the use thereof" was invented by Lauren Monahan (Aurora, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infant training devices and methods for the use thereof are disclosed herein. A benefit to the devices and methods herein can be the effective training of an infant to develop the suck-swallow-breathe pattern of nutritive and non-nutritive sucking required for feeding from an infant bottle, or for self-soothing with a pacifier. A further benefit to the devices and methods herein can be providing versatile devices for the use of vibration therapy as an infant training aid for fee...