ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,187, issued on April 22, was assigned to MICROJET TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Breast pump" was invented by Hao-Jan Mou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Sung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Kai Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Yang Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Lung Han (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Feng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breast pump includes a main body and a breast milk suctioning shield. The main body has an accommodation space. The breast milk suctioning shield is assembled in the accommodation space and detachably connected to the main body. A front end of the breast milk suctioning shield has a breast ...