ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,312, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Teat for a bottle and a bottle having the teat" was invented by Wiecher Ferdinand Kamping (Esch, Netherlands), Johannes Tseard Van Der Kooi (Munein, Netherlands), Sietse De Vries (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Yolanda Bruinsma (Drachten, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teat for a bottle has a nipple portion at which there is a recessed valve portion. The valve portion is domed outwardly."
The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/797,467.
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