US Patent Issued to Pigeon on June 2 for "Breast pump" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,894, issued on June 2, was assigned to Pigeon Corp. (Tokyo).

"Breast pump" 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 main body and a handle. The main body includes an internal passage, a negative pressure generation mechanism configured to generate negative pressure in the internal passage for pumping milk, a hood attaching portion to which a hood fitted to a breast is attached, the hood attaching portion being disposed at a front p...