ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,465, issued on May 19, was assigned to MEDELA AG (Baar, Switzerland).
"Suction pump with optical status indicator" was invented by Cornel Baechler (Honau, Switzerland), Thomas Imhof (Brittnau, Switzerland) and Hilmar Ehlert (Hergiswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates in one variant to a suction pump (1) for sucking body fluid, comprising an optical status indicator (5) for displaying a light signal as a function of the operating state of the suction pump (1), the optical status indicator (5) is arranged on at least two points of the outer surface of the suction pump (1), the surface normals of which ar...