US Patent Issued to MEDELA on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for accumulating a fluid" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,389, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MEDELA AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for accumulating a fluid" was invented by Martin Thuring (Sins, Switzerland) and Sebastian Honer (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for accumulating a fluid, the apparatus including a drain bottle for containing the fluid, a reservoir having an outlet towards the drain bottle, the reservoir and the drain bottle communicating with each other via a valve provided in the outlet, a suction aperture connectable with a suction pump for creating a vacuum in the reservoir, an optical sensing device operably coupled to the reserv...