US Patent Issued to MEDELA on June 23 for "Breast shield" (Australian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,438, issued on June 23, was assigned to MEDELA AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Breast shield" was invented by Sebastian Honer (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Leon Mitoulas (Stirling, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breast shield for expressing human breast milk. The breast shield includes an outer housing and a flexible inner liner within the outer housing. In use, with the breast shield applied to a breast, the inner liner is in contact with the surface of both the areola and nipple of the breast. The breast shield further includes an outer chamber between the outer housing and the inner liner and an inner chamber within the inner li...