US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY on Aug. 4 for "Breast pump" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,422, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY (Galway, Ireland).

"Breast pump" was invented by Eva Nagy-Gannon (Galway, Ireland), Sandra Ganly (Galway, Ireland), Yuqi Shaughnessy (Galway, Ireland), Faisal Sharif (Galway, Ireland), Genevieve Becker (Galway, Ireland), Roy Phillip (Limerick, Ireland), Migle Dominica Make-Lyte (Galway, Ireland), Morven Gannon (Galway, Ireland) and Kealan Devlin (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomechanical breast pump mechanism (1) for expressing breastmilk comprising a biomimetic funnel (2), at least two active actuation areas (23,24) on the funnel (2) an...