US Patent Issued to PIGEON on Nov. 4 for "Electric breast pump, method of controlling electric breast pump, and control program for electric breast pump" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,736, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PIGEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric breast pump, method of controlling electric breast pump, and control program for electric breast pump" was invented by Yuichiro Tanaka (Tokyo), Satoru Saito (Tokyo) and Sumiko Kuroishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric breast pump 1 includes a breast placement part 12 in which a breast part including a breast and a nipple of a subject is placed and suction-pressure generating units 10 and 50 that generate a suction pressure in the breast placement part. The suction-pressure generating unit generates a suction cycle including a plurality of sucking o...