ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,991, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Partitioning component for a feeding bottle" was invented by Wiecher Ferdinand Kamping (Esch, Netherlands), Narasimha Shastri (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Luc Berntsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Christoph Dobrusskin (Nuenen, Netherlands) and Daan Hendrik Gosenshuis (Waalre, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partitioning component (210) for dividing a feeding bottle (110) into two sections: one (125) associated with a container (120) part of the bottle and one (115) associated with a teat part (110) of the bottle. The partition allows ...