ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,205, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Pump arrangement, configured to be used with a double breast pump device" was invented by Paul Aelen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Petrus Antonius Maria Van Asseldonk (Best, Netherlands) and Arjan Teodor Van Wieringen (Malden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump arrangement (5) for use with a breast pump device comprises a pump element (51), an expression kit air conduit (55) designed to allow for air connection of an expression kit (2) of the device to the pump arrangement (5), a volume element (54) configured to store vacu...