US Patent Issued to MEDELA HOLDING on July 28 for "Breast pump and method for operating such pump" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,206, issued on July 28, was assigned to MEDELA HOLDING AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Breast pump and method for operating such pump" was invented by Krzysztof Wajtryt (Baar, Switzerland), Jakub Piotr Pawlowski (Zug, Switzerland), Daria Schelling (Zurich), Beda Weber (Sins, Switzerland) and Romana Gander (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breast pump shaped at least in part to fit inside a bra and comprising a housing including an aggregate, a breast shield element including a nipple tunnel adapted to receive a nipple, and a milk container adapted to contain a predetermined amount of expressed milk, wherein the breast s...