US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama on Dec. 9 for "Instrumented infant feeding bottle" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,139, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Instrumented infant feeding bottle" was invented by Eduard S. Sazonov (Northport, Ala.), Ariel A. Salas (Hoover, Ala.) and Paula Catherine Chandler-Laney (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding bottle includes a bottle enclosure defining a hollow bottle chamber, wherein the enclosure defines a feeding outlet at a first end and an attachment structure 26 at a second end. A bottom housing defines an instrument compartment extending between a closed exterior portion of the bottom housing and a separation surfa...