ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,380, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lansinoh Laboratories Inc. (Alexandria, Va.).
"Vibratory waveform for breast pump" was invented by Rush Bartlett (Alexandria, Va.) and Frank Tinghwa Wang (Alexandria, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating milk extraction from a female breast may involve applying a breast contacting portion of a breast pump system to a breast, activating the breast pump system to administer multiple breast pumping cycles, and applying vibrations to the breast during at least a portion of each of the breast pumping cycles, using a vibration device. A vibration generating device may be a com...