US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 27 for "Monitoring system and method for monitoring milk flow during breast feeding or milk expression" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,074, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Monitoring system and method for monitoring milk flow during breast feeding or milk expression" was invented by Paul Christoph Hamelmann (Aachen, Germany) and Yannyk Parulian Julian Bourquin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for monitoring milk flow during breast feeding or milk expression uses a flow sensor arrangement to monitor milk flow levels from different regions of the breast. A map of milk flow levels for different regions of the breast is then generated and displayed."

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