US Patent Issued to Willow Innovations on Feb. 17 for "Systems, devices and methods for assessing milk volume expressed from a breast" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,161, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Willow Innovations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for assessing milk volume expressed from a breast" was invented by Joshua Makower (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), John Y. Chang (Los Altos, Calif.), Theodore M. Bender (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Brendan M. Donohoe (Fairfax, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing milk volume changes within a breast are described. Also described are systems and methods for assessing volume changes in the stomach of an infant."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/407,643.

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