US Patent Issued to Mother's Milk is Best on July 8 for "System for removing water from human breast milk" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,692, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mother's Milk is Best Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"System for removing water from human breast milk" was invented by Elizabeth Rinaldi Schinkel (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concentrating nutrients in breast milk may be achieved using an apparatus comprising a first sheet of material comprising a forward osmotic membrane, a second sheet of material sealed to the first sheet of material about a common outer perimeter thereof, the first sheet of material arranged so that water can traverse the forward osmotic membrane to an interior of the first and second sheets, and a dry ca...