ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,897, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Pigeon Corp. (Tokyo).
"Milking machine" was invented by Yukifumi Ochiai (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Shimomura (Chiba, Japan), Yuina Ando (Chiba, Japan), Hyunjin Im (Chiba, Japan), Hayato Ueno (Chiba, Japan) and Tsukasa Hattori (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breast pump includes a body including a hood attachment portion, a bottle attachment portion, and an inner passage extending between the hood attachment portion and the bottle attachment portion; a diaphragm configured to generate negative pressure in the inner passage; a handle manually operated to move back and forth; and a link mec...