ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,232, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Teat for use with a container for containing liquid" was invented by Wiecher Ferdinand Kamping (Esch, Netherlands), Johannes Tseard Van Der Kooi (Munein, Netherlands), Christoph Dobrusskin (Nuenen, Netherlands), Sietse De Vries (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Daan Hendrik Gosenshuis (Waalre, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teat (1) comprises a hollow teat body (10) including a deformable hollow mouthpiece (11) and a normally-closed valve (30) arranged at a level of the mouthpiece (11) or a level more downstream, the valve (30) being op...