US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Apparatus for measuring pushes during labor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,810, issued on July 7.

"Apparatus for measuring pushes during labor" was invented by Forrest O. Smith (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to accurately measure the strength or level of the voluntary pushes supplied by the laboring mother during the second stage of labor through the contraction of her abdominal musculature, that comprises a hollow handheld base with a central lumen and a recess enclosing a calibrated spring into which a shaft with a central lumen capped by a mushroom-shaped outer surface is inserted which tip is applied to the anus to pass a catheter containing a solid-state pressure transducer ...